On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 13:59 +0200, Vitaly Chernooky wrote:
>
> > Guys, what do you think about using an Interface Description Language
> > such as Google Protocol Buffers or something like?
>
> After a bit of googling and reading it seems like Google Protocol
> Buffers includes a specific wire encoding, a la ASN.1 or CORBA, whereas
> we need to be able to describe existing binary formats.
>
> I haven't evaluated the suitability for new PV protocols, but it seems
> like Protocol Buffers are not really intended for shared memory
> protocols (rather network transparent ones). Perhaps I'm wrong though, I
> just had a quick look.
>

I just want to mention than machine-readable protocol description is
reasonable and possibly has some advantages for us over rfc-like protocol
description style. So i'm interested to know another opinions about it.

With best regards,


> Ian.
>


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