What to do about HPSS protocol backwards compatibility for faster push?

Andrew Bennetts andrew at canonical.com
Thu Oct 18 06:42:45 BST 2007


John Arbash Meinel wrote:
[...]
> 
> Anyway, I understand the goal of being stateless. I'm not sure that we really
> want to get into the habit of supporting 10 versions of the 'GET' protocol
> because we happened to try it a different way at one point. Which means that
> you can't really support all clients against all servers.
> So I think it is good to try to be stateless. I just don't think you're going
> to get out of it as much as you might think you would.

The main thing I want out of it is simplicity (including the simplicity not
significantly changing the current design if I don't have to!).  Of course
sometimes having simplicity in one place means shifting the complexity to
somewhere else...

-Andrew.




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