[mythtv] Backwards compatibility

[Lawrence Rust]

On Thu, 2016-01-07 at 09:17 -0500, Dan Wilga wrote:
> On 1/7/16 4:24 AM, Lawrence Rust wrote:
> > I don't want to re-invent the wheel so I'd like to use an existing
> > lightweight RPC mechanism (something that doesn't use JSON or XML
> > etc). The Myth protocol, although clunky, looks as if it better fits
> > those requirements. I'm not familiar with the services API but at 1st
> > looks it appears to have much higher overhead and latency. Please
> > correct me if I'm mistaken...
> 
> IIRC, Myth already uses ZeroMQ in places. Perhaps that would be a good 
> way to do the communication? It has less overhead than anything HTTP-based.

Yes, 0MQ would be a good candidate to replace the basic Myth protocol.
But I don't believe it provides data serialisation.  So it would need
something like Google's 'Protocol Buffers' on top.

-- 
Lawrence Rust