From: Rick Nooner <rick@...>
Date: 2005-09-28T01:18:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Rinda frustration

On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:53:02PM +0900, Hugh Sasse wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> 
> >Anyone recommend a plainer-english version of some documentation that
> >goes into Linda/Rinda basics?
> >
> 
> There is this:
> 
> http://www.chadfowler.com/ruby/drb.html
> 
> by Chad Fowler,  and I started to write
> 
> http://www.eng.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~hgs/ruby/dRuby/
> 
> before Druby-2.0.4 came out, so some of it is out of date, and some
> aspects I don't understand yet anyway.  I've not had time * energy
> to update it recently, but patches would be welcome :-)
> 
>         HTH
>         Hugh
> >
> 

These sites are good for an intro to dRB and I wish I would have known
about them when I first started dealing with dRB, but they don't talk
about Rinda at all.

Rinda is built on top of dRB so an understanding of dRB is necessary
before tackling Rinda, however it would be nice to have more
documentation on Rinda itself.

You do provide some good links to Linda sites.

Someone could ask why, with the remote object invocation capabilities
of dRB would someone even want Rinda.  It's because Rinda provides
a distributed "blackboard" that can simplify communication among
many distributed processes.  We need a site that explains this
in detail, with examples since most people have never been exposed
to such a thing.

Rick

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