On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

we are interested in your opinion! As one of our main focus is to keep
BaseX small and cute (..sad but true: the BaseX core library already
exceeds 2mb.. ;), we're currently contemplating the removal of two
existing BaseX features, namely..

1) the BaseXHTTP client mode (flag -c). Currently, we offer three
operation modes: default, local, and client [1]. In client mode, all
requests are supposed to be passed on to yet another BaseX server
instance. Currently, however, WebDAV is the only service which is 100%
compatible with this mode, while RESTXQ isn't tailored at all to
handle remote database requests. Instead, we are contemplating on
adding a light-weight XQuery Client API Module, which can then be used
to explicitly address remote BaseX instances from within XQuery
whenever databases are not stored locally anyway.

2) the current ZIP Module. The functionality won't disappear, though:
we will replace it with a new, more flexible proposal specified by
Matthias Branter (28msec) and me [2].

In a nutshell: who of you is using either 1) or 2) and would run into
big troubles if those features were ousted and replaced with the
approaches we believe are more promising for future development?

Thanks as usual for your feedback, either to the list (preferred) or in private,
Christian

[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Startup_Options#BaseX_HTTP_Server
[2] http://spex.basex.org/index.php?title=ZIP_Module
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