RE: xPLLib v3.0 Public Beta

["Tony Tofts" <tony@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I guess the question is: Do we want any app to be able to act
> as a hub, or are we happy with the present situation where
> the user specifically designates an application to act as the hub.
> It has always been the view of the xPL team that there should
> be only one app that can act as a hub on a computer at once,
> so that end-users receive consistent results.
> What are people's views on this?

Hi John,

I have no problem with the principle of an app being able to act as a hub,
but I'm not sure about the mutex idea.

The incompatibility between mutex and non .net app's worries me somewhat.

Personally I would prefer an approach where app's that can act as hubs
regularly try to bind to the xpl port instead?

> My own view (and I think this differs from Tom) is that it
> should continue to accept traffic from the network by default.

I would have to agree with this. Things like windows firewall already
complicate troubleshooting particular issues, I think locking down to the
local ip by default just makes support more complicated?

Just my thoughts

Regards
Tony