From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-09-28T12:16:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Rinda frustration

On 9/27/05, Rick Nooner <rick@nooner.net> wrote:
> 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 before Druby-2.0.4 came out, so some of it is out of date, and some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.
>

+1