<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">My feeling is that it would be best to totally replace/remove glib and as many unix libraries as makes sense; mainly from performance and cross platform perspectives. I feel that continuing to try and port all these unix based libraries to run on smart devices (even though a number of these smart devices contain custom unix kernels) is way too time consuming and down the road may lead to be counter productive due to the factors I mention below. Also, all these unix libraries, as part of a smart device bundles, require a very large memory footprint.<div><br><div>All these smart devices (i.e. iOS, Android OS, and Blackberry) are very limited with regards to CPU speed, memory capacity, and resources in general. </div><div><br></div><div>Scalability is very limited - on the other hand with cloud based support, HTML5/css/javascript on servers and webviews on the devices - the scalability has some greater potential. But still cpu and memory are real limiting factors.</div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 8, 2011, at 2:35 AM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Cliff,<br><br>On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 06:12:07PM -0500, Cliff Sharp wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I would like to ask a question to extract a fairly detailed response from<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">those who are most familiar with the spice architecture.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">What (in some detail) would be needed, as far as architecture and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">software development, to maybe start with the spice-protocol (i.e. as<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">little as possible) and build a command line spice client to run on a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">platform?<br></blockquote><br>Your best bet might be to look at what spice-glib does, it's part of<br>spice-gtk, but it doesn't have any GUI-related dependency, so it should be<br>pretty light on deps, and it handles most of the low-level protocol<br>interactions with a spice-server. Marc-André might be able to give a more<br>detailed description of what this provides.<br><br>Christophe<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8CC63F"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">____</font></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Sans'"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#005581"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="LucidaSans-Demi" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Cliff Sharp</span></font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8CC63F"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>|</span></font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "> </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="LucidaSans-Demi" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><a href="mailto:csharp@vbridges.com">csharp@vbridges.com</a></span></font></font></font></div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br></div></div></body></html>