[Sugar-devel] Regarding JS collaboration project

[Daniel Narvaez]

If I remember correctly Emil also agreed that the new framework should be
independent from telepathy at some point and even worked on it.


On 9 March 2014 06:45, Prasoon Shukla <prasoon92.iitr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Sam. Sorry for the late response but I was occupied with academics.
>
> Anyway, I need to bother you again with some questions.
>
> So, I went through the thread by Emil Dudev and read the arguments he made
> in favour of not using the mozilla node server and using telepathy instead.
> To that, dnarvaez said that using the node server might be a better idea
> since the current protocol is very unstable.
>
> Now, I am somewhat familiar with sugar codebase but certainly not enough
> to actually discuss the merits or demerits of either of these approaches
> (although personally, I like better the idea of all communication happening
> over websocket via a node server). So, the final decision on which approach
> to take will be in the hands of those more experienced. But as I said
> before, I would prefer it if we use the websocket protocol to have this
> kind of architecture:
>
> |Sugar Web Activity| <-----> |Sugar Shell|
>    \
>     \
>  websocket
>       \
> |Node Server|
>        /
>       /
>      /
> |Sugar Web Activity| <-----> |Sugar Shell|
>
> instead of the usual telepathy based communication. This I would like
> because:
> 1. We'll be able to use the mozilla server with modifications as needed.
> 2. We'll be able to use the *huge* node.js ecosystem for realtime
> communication in any way we want! And, websocket is very versatile -  we
> can send pretty much any binary data over the network.
>
> Also, I've worked with node before and found the communication to be quite
> reliable (which it is not with the current XMPP based protocol, if I
> understood dnarvaez correctly). That said, I've only tested out my node
> based work with a handful of people, so...
>
> The only downside is the need to have a node server running. For the case
> when there is not internet connectivity, I think we can make a set of
> scripts that can be called to run a node server on the one of the machines,
> say that of the teacher, and all others will connect to it. And of course,
> this process needs to be simple.
>
> Anyway, it just seems right to me to augment JS activities with a JS based
> collaboration framework. But of course, I don't really know the details all
> too well to be making the decision here.
>
> So, can you please comment on this? Once this decision is made, I can
> start working on my application.
>
> Thanks
> ᐧ
>
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