[swx] Roadmap questions & suggestions

[ben]

I guess this does make a point. It's a generous gesture to hand over a 
service and it would be interesting to see the basic list of swx 
services expand a little.

However there's probably room for different development directions to 
focus on,
1. One to develop the swx api and keep it up-to-date (updates for as2 
version, and building an as3 version would be important),
2. one to work on rpcs (updates to swx php rpc, rpcs for additional 
languages (.NET? CF?) ),
3. and one to expand the samples services.

I've personaly found that I always needed fairly custom services and 
didn't rely much on the existing ones (though the xml service is really 
quite nice) so i'd be more up for working on directions 1 & 2.

Are other people on this list interested to work on any of this?

Cheers
Ben

Nederflash (Folkert Hielema) wrote:
> Would like t know too about how we goig to keep the public server 
> provided with services and updates to those services.
> The svn option looks like a nice one but the truth is it is, even after 
> multiple emails about updated services, not updated so i for one am 
> about to stop seeing it as a potential option. This is where swx would 
> and should be great in. Offer public services and keep them in sync with 
> latest versions of those same services.
> For example worked hard a while back to get Pownce API complete. Then 
> putted in svn, emailed about the updates, emailed again about the 
> updates, and today there still is no Pownce api on the public gateway.
> this is not to sound ugly but this is simply how it 'not' works at the 
> moment.
> Same for the two times call for this same discussion. Were to go, what 
> should we do, what can we do, how will we organize this into a working 
> setup etc etc..
>
> SWX is great in it's usage, public services offer and ease of usage. But 
> then those 'default' updates and new services should be online in matter 
> of minutes instead of simply NOT ;)
>
> As long as we talk about this stuff it's great but only talk will not 
> change a thing.
>
> Not to be ugly or anything here just how it goes in practicum at the moment.
>
> discuss points are (i think)
>
> --public gateway
> --as3 version SWX
> --versioning for the public services
> --leading the project
> --pr (as in make some noice like the noise we had last year ;))
> --who is who and who can do what, and why is that not happening :D
>
> Folkert
>
> ps: See the archive for earlier calls for discussion..
>
> ben wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was just wondering what the current status on development of swx was.
>>
>> Are there plans of a new AS2 release?
>>
>> If i may suggest one thing for a potential upcoming release, can swx.php 
>> be done without globals?
>>
>> All the swx code seems nicely organised in OO style (Validate class, 
>> Services_JSON class, SwxAssembler class, etc) but swx.php isn't as clean.
>> I personally don't mind as long as it work but I have been using 
>> CodeIgniter a lot in my SWX request and the latest version of CI (1.6) 
>> break the swx calls because it unsets all the globals when executed.
>>
>> After searching, I know I can override CI's behaviour by overloading its 
>> input class but I feel like I'm making something good like CI less good 
>> by doing so where I'd prefer to make something good like swx better.
>>
>> Can this "globals" issue be taken in consideration for future developments?
>>
>> Also, is there still plans for an AS3 version?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ben
>>
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