[E-Lang] remote comms: Timeouts and Connection Failure

[Mark S. Miller]

At 07:44 AM Friday 4/6/01, Tyler Close wrote:
>At 02:02 PM 4/6/01 +0100, Tyler Close wrote:
>>I'd recommend that you make a simple implementation of the Acid interface and implement E to the Acid interface.
>
>I've been thinking through what a simple implementation of the Acid 
>interface might look like and have decided its pretty easy. If you'll commit 
>to building the E to Acid interface, I'll make a cheesy "save-the-world" 
>implementation of Acid and put it under the Mozilla license.

I find this offer very encouraging, thanks!!  I cannot quite make the 
commitment you ask for because of the potential for mismatch problems I 
can't foresee (I know of none presently).  But if I commit to trying, and to 
publicly discussing any apparent roadblocks, would that be good enough for a 
deal?

Regarding the previous issue, since you'd now be doing the cheezy 
persistence implementation, not I, do you expect it could checkpoint often 
enough that its users could reasonably delay outgoing messages until the 
next checkpoint?  If not, how do you expect users of cheezy-Acid persistence 
to cope, if not by amnesia?

In any case, this offer makes me very hopeful.  On to persistence!!


        Cheers,
        --MarkM