27 May
2009
27 May
'09
2:03 p.m.
On 147, 05 27, 2009 at 01:31:41PM +0400, Max Ivanov wrote:
The big problem is what the protocol should be. Use some existing RPC protocol? It should be something extensible so that a plugin in imap process can talk to a plugin in storage process, without the base processes knowing anything about the details (e.g. imap-quota plugin asking quota usage from storage's quota plugin).
Googles Protocol Buffers offer both flexibility and speed.
"Protocol buffers are Google's ... blah-blah-blah ... using a variety of languages - Java, C++, or Python."
I can't find good old plain C in this "variety of languages" :(