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[Hello71]

making new topic since I doubt most people follow the DT thread.

would remote access for DT be useful for anyone?

[Putnam]

Yes, extremely. DFTerm, DFeverywhere and any other multiplayer DF programs would get a great boon from this.

[Hello71]

for remote DF coders:

what would be the best interface? I was thinking a regular TCP connection with a basic C program (less dependencies) on the other side. all it needs to implement is read_raw, write_raw, and remote_syscall anyways. something more flexible would be a local unix socket or something that could be attached to by socat or the custom transport used for DF.

there is a bit of a security concern, since the remote DT has effective remote code execution on the DF process; removing this concern would mean a significant amount of work for little gain.

thoughts?

[Rayston]

I envision something like remote nethack

http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Public_server

though I would love one that was compatible with the various utilities like dfhack, dwarf therapist, stonesense overlay, soundsense, twbt, and abilities to customize settings including lua scripts and the like 

[hazzey]

I like the idea of the interface being coded in html5/JS.  Or maybe at least having the interface interact via RPC calls.  That could make it very mod-able.  It would allow the GUI to be completely separate from the backend. 

Of course this would make it a more complicated change from the existing codebase. Any progress would be interesting.