Jeff Lindsay

I feel like maybe aligning with JSON-RPC is getting a little out of hand. We did agree these are WebPipes and so it makes sense to focus on web technologies....

Why can't a database block be split into different blocks? On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Matthew Hudson [email protected]: > I have to agree with Jeff. I think...

I don't know what you mean. Give me an example. On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Matthew Hudson [email protected]: > Wouldn't that be confusing? How would a block...

Naming convention? Meta-data? Maybe that's a registry/index problem? There was an operating system called Genera. It was 100% LISP. Think about the complexity of an operating system. Now think about...

See json-rpc spec. On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Matthew Hudson [email protected]: > It would be nice if blocks could output an error message. Maybe send a >...

{ "result": null, "error": null} Maybe? On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Matthew Hudson [email protected]: > For example, the send email block doesn't have any output. I vote...

Debatable. Indexes/registries can just store the definition and not have to also keep the URL separately. But I don't think it's a big deal that they'd have to. When in...

Hmm. Well self-description is part of the protocol. Right now that would be with the OPTIONS verb. I'm torn though because if it where a different URL, I could imagine...

True. Command line tools will either tell you how to use help or display it in place when you use it wrong. I think that's a good pattern. On Wed,...

-X/--request curl -X OPTIONS http://example.com On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Joël Franusic [email protected]: > As an aside, how does one make an OPTIONS request with curl(1)? >...