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Re: [Tools-arch] Recommendation 6: Architectural model for clients

John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Tue, 20 April 2021 02:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tools-arch] Recommendation 6: Architectural model for clients
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>> I cannot agree. We have a bunch of tools each of which work
>> differently, ...

> Commercial and Open Source Python applications are distributed as 
> binaries or as standalone distributions all the time successfully, and 
> are marketed to much less technical audiences than the IETF.

Sure, but that requires a much more sophisticated and disciplined software 
development environment than we have.  I'll let the various volunteers 
chime in here and say how hard they think it'd be to ship versions of 
their stuff for, say, Windows, Mac, and some version of Linux.

> Nothing above leads me to believe that we need to fundamentally revisit how our tools relate to each other.

If you want standalone distributions for multiple platforms we sure do.

A large part of the appeal of Jay's proposal that we move to APIs and 
front ends is that the main program that exposes the API only has to work 
in one environment, and we can have relatively small generic front ends 
for each platform and for a web service.  AWS does this with a command 
line front end that drives all of their various services.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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