[Chinook] chinook update - april 15th, 2004

[Stephen Montgomery]

chinook update - april 15th, 2004

- implemented a large part of the batching functionality that will get 
chinook working from a commandline or perl interface.
this will allow users to specify sequence, and a service name in perl 
and dispatch it to chinook to find a service on the internet that can 
execute it.

- a major revision is changing the way services are discovered.  created 
a socket communication protocol for service discovery.  this allows 
users to have one instance of their p2p code on their network.  they 
then publish and discover services by connecting to specified ports on 
this process (all behind the scenes).  this involved a major overhaul of 
some code but it was designed well (in my opinion) with tony's input. 
 now peers can be client/server or multi-client/multi-server instead of 
one of either a client or a server.  (i.e. from the commandline you are 
now able to do more than one thing at a time, now really quickly).

future goals over the next 2 weeks:

- finish sockets overhaul
- implement "advertise service" socket protocol
- build batching input process (have output process ready)
- write some perl interface code

this is going to be one kickass piece of software very soon.

cheers,
stephen