Re: [RFC] External control of Octave via IPC

[Søren Hauberg]

tir, 20 01 2009 kl. 09:30 -0500, skrev John Swensen:
> Would it be possible to define the same interface (not necessarily  
> what is in the octave_server class right now) that returns data in the  
> exact same way for both DBus and direct function call  
> implementations?  I think an IPC method of interacting with Octave is  
> important (think better distributed octave implementations, making a  
> Octave Engine similar to the Matlab Engine, etc), but when running in  
> the same process as Octave, it is altogether unecessary.

I guess you could make some wrapper class around the DBus calls that
behaves like octave_server. In more high-level languages (like Python)
DBus calls behaves just like ordinary functions, but in C/C++ it is a
bit more tedious, so some wrapper would be needed.

Soren