What feature would you like to see most in Ice?

[iCode]

True to form, I simply coded around the problem. Created dummy C++ files that built without the error. There were only two, Glacier2/callback and Glacier2/chat.

Everything else built OK. Subsequently there were only 5 problems with 'make test':

13/71: testing sent callback - times out indefinitely
25/71: testing dispatcher - times out indefinitely
32/71: plug-in initialization failed
36/71: testing udp multicast - ConnectFailedException (could be my DNS setup?)
61/71: testing replication with ordered load balancing... failed

However, the "Hello World" application is working which is all the capability I need for now.

Thanks for the responses!
Laszlo

[recoder]

My original post is here Does ice support MinGW?

[swaj]

In the spirit of the OP, I'd love to see support for Node.js in ZeroC Ice. It would save me so much time.

[colorado]

Now Ice does not support Qt SDK. Qt SDK become more and more popular and important. At present, Qt Creator can not compile Ice programs on Windows ,because Qt Creator use mingw as it's compiler,but Ice does not support Mingw.
If Ice support Qt Creator on Windows, I think it will be a big improvement.

[recoder]

Hallo,

I do not know, what You mean, maybe it is some misunderstanding, but last time I checked You could have Qt and Ice playing nicely together on Windows; - when You use the Visual C++ compilers from Microsoft. Doing that will force You sooner or later, even when you start with the "express" version, into the proprietary corner, with all associated monetary and freedom costs.

I personally did not want to go this way and tried to port Ice to the GCC compiler on windows, in my case, I choose the TDM edition for MinGW. I am not finished yet, although I did compile Ice and Qt and used them together on Windows. There is no documentation and I did nothing to reintegrate my changes. - But in case You are interested we can go together and try to do a MinGW port "properly".

You can of course go the Linux way.

Anyway, I wrote far too much ;-)

Cheers,

recoder

[Noleta]

In the spirit of the OP, I'd love to see support for Node.js in ZeroC Ice. It would save me so much time.

I know, right? I absolutely agree with that! That's exactly what I personally want!

[dmitry.medvedev]

support for the current stable Debian — this is what I'm praying for.

[Oleh Babyak]

It would be very useful to have a statistic for Icestorm that could be input for monitoring. For example if IceStorm starts consuming more memory to find the root cause following information will be good to know (last 1/5/15 min and from the beginning ):

How many queues exist?
How many unsent messages are in each queue?
How many workers are listening on what queues?

Even simplest queue implementation have such info:
Introducing RQ » nvie.com

[bernard]

Hi Oleh,

I agree, we should provide more information about what's going on inside IceStorm.

An increase in memory consumption can be due to one or more subscribers processing messages too slowly, however, unfortunately it's currently difficult to say for sure or identify these slow subscribers.

Thanks for the feedback,
Bernard