Administrative MTypes

[Mark Taylor]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, John Taylor wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Mike Fitzpatrick <fitz at noao.edu> wrote:
>>
>>        That said, I'd still like to have an 'app' class of messages
>> since not every administrative message will be coming from the hub.
>> My sense is that app.echo and app.isAlive really mean the same thing
>> and could be just 'app.ping' or somesuch (after all, if an app isn't
>> alive it would never respond, but then neither would any other message).
>
> I'd agree with that.  I put the echo message in just for test purposes as
> something I could send and not cause any side effects.  ping does the same
> job.

following this up belatedly - for consistency I plan (unless anyone
objects) to rename the Standard Profile hub method isAlive() to ping().
As Mike points out, ping is a less confusing label for this 
functionality.

Mark

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