[Mnet-devel] Fwd: angry schtuff / versions / egtp

[Zooko Journeyman]

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> From: Zooko Journeyman <zooko at zooko.com>
> Date: 2004, August 12,  09:06:55 ADT
> To: ash at ash.de
> Subject: Re: angry schtuff / versions / egtp
>
>> look at the description in the mnetlib/version.py ... this seems to
>> work pretty well, is supported by distutils both ways
>
> Yeah, I think that is an okay way to do it.  It's slightly abusing the 
> Pythonic scheme by using the "alpha release number" to be a "build 
> number" a.k.a. "nano number", but that only matters if we make actual 
> alpha releases that end users are going to see, I guess.
>
> Anyway, I don't think version numbers are so important that I wouldn't 
> be willing to do it your way.  However, if we're going to work 
> together, then when you get angry I want you to refrain from sending 
> me e-mails until your anger subsides.
>
>> but since the original EGTP mail contained a description of what would
>> happen in this case, no need to repeat it here.
>
> No, unless I'm making a mistake, the objection that you wrote in your 
> original mail doesn't apply to my proposal.  In fact, it was reading 
> your objection that caused me to think of my proposal as a way to get 
> around your objection.
>
> I'll re-read those two real quick...
>
> You wrote: "an EGTP node will NEVER be able to reset on a 
> unknown-session-message it received from a relay-server."
>
> But in my proposal: "Q:  But wait a minute: you can't do that if the 
> message arrived via relay server!  A: All you need to know is the ID 
> of the sender and you can send him a message normally -- via 
> egtp.Node.send().  If the sender includes his ID in the cleartext at 
> the beginning of each message then you'll always be able to send to 
> him, even if he is behind relay."
>
> I'm pretty sure it will work.
>
> By the way, I want to take this conversation public.  Please let me 
> know if I can send this message to mnet-devel, or please edit this 
> message and send an edited version to mnet-devel.
>
> Regards,
>
> Zooko
>