Re: xPL-Issue

[Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's not just reinvention of the wheel - it's like having to replace all
your cars each time a new kind of wheel is invented.  With each app
containing hub code, if the system is changed (as might have to happen
to remove the use of the mutex), all apps must be rebuilt and
reinstalled - that's just not right.

If all xPL apps shipped with a stand-alone hub (and did not have a built
in one - not even in xPLHal), and that hub was installed only if it was
newer than the existing one, we'd solve all the problems at once.

Mal



Neil Wrightson wrote:

> Hi Ian,
>
> Your last comment, to me appears to be the most logical.
>
> > I can't recall who it was that said at the time (might have been
Mal)
> > this was originally debated, that it would be preferable to have
an
> > absolutely rock solid Hub service, and just insist that it's
installed
> > before other services etc can be used, rather than have a variety
of
> > applications that might or might not become hubs.
>
> Why continually incorporate potentially various versions of a hub into
> software modules that do not require. It is almost re-invention of the
> wheel
> each time.
> I always thought this multiple on again off again hub thingy to be a
bit
> strange.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Neil Wrightson.
>