<div dir="ltr">In theory, yes. We could add support for the web socket based framework to the python toolkit. </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On 9 March 2014 13:33, Tony Anderson <<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div>Hi, It sounds like the school server should be the node server. Does this proposed implementation support python sugar activities? Tony On 03/09/2014 07:32 AM, <a href="mailto:sugar-devel-request@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">sugar-devel-request@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> wrote: </div> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre>Message: 4 Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 12:12:56 +0100 From: Daniel Narvaez <a href="mailto:dwnarvaez@gmail.com" target="_blank"><dwnarvaez@gmail.com></a> To: Prasoon Shukla <a href="mailto:prasoon92.iitr@gmail.com" target="_blank"><prasoon92.iitr@gmail.com></a> Cc: Sugar-dev Devel <a href="mailto:sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org></a>, Sam Parkinson <a href="mailto:sam.parkinson3@gmail.com" target="_blank"><sam.parkinson3@gmail.com></a>, Emil Dudev <a href="mailto:emildudev@gmail.com" target="_blank"><emildudev@gmail.com></a> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding JS collaboration project Message-ID: <a href="mailto:CANTHhva+dF2iHcGof2L5QmbO3XhFSUUxuUKHGfyhTqovHw4A1Q@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank"><CANTHhva+dF2iHcGof2L5QmbO3XhFSUUxuUKHGfyhTqovHw4A1Q@mail.gmail.com></a> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" 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 <a href="mailto:prasoon92.iitr@gmail.com" target="_blank"><prasoon92.iitr@gmail.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite" style> <pre>> 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: > > <code>|Sugar Web Activity|</code> <-----> <code>|Sugar Shell|</code> > \ > \ > websocket > \ > <code>|Node Server|</code> > / > / > / > <code>|Sugar Web Activity|</code> <-----> <code>|Sugar Shell|</code> > > 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 </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> </div> _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </blockquote></div> -- Daniel Narvaez </div>