perfsonar development work

[Loukik Kudarimoti <>]

Jeff W. Boote wrote:
> Roman Lapacz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > during the last meeting in Cambridge (GN2 workshop) we decided to 
> > have two base products in SVN structure: one for client and one for 
> > services. Today I came back to this and started analyzing the 
> > sources. I came to conclusion that we have some classes that can be 
> > used either in clients or services so there was a problem which base 
> > I should use (we must remember that our structure must be clear and 
> > logical to new developers).
>
> The proposal was:
>
> client-base :    Anything that is needed by both clients and services
> service-base :    Anything that is ONLY needed by services
>
> The point was to make the client jar as small as it could be since it 
> will be used by many applications. But, to provide all the 
> functionality required to write a client application.
>
> If this split is not useful now that you are really looking at the 
> code while considering it, then of course it should not be done. I am 
> fine with either solution. I just responded because it is clear where 
> the code you are referring to should be placed (client-base) if the 
> split is done.

If I understood Roman correctly, I think he wasn't sure where to put 
code that *we think* can be used by clients as well. But such ode is 
only used by services at the moment. If we think along those lines, a 
large part of the code base would actually end up on the client side.


> jeff