As I was working on another project, I ran into some other project doing exactly this. Our current wire protocol is effectively "len-of-thing thing", but msgpack already includes headers in the serialization--making it an iterably consumable format. This means we don't need to use/waste bytes on the wire for the len of the string (esp. since its currently a string serialization of how many bytes).
This change simplifies the wire protocol, but still maintains flexibility for changes later-- since we are effectively just msgpacking dicts across the wire.
Note: this is a backwards incompatible wire protocol change. This is only being done as TCP is considered "experimental". This will be the last and only change to the wire protocol in a backwards incompatible fashion-- as we are working towards first-class support for the next release.
I need to push where I am here, but I am out of time today to get more
in.
RAET works! Albeit just barely, it is very KDE 4.0, still
needs much work, but we want it in the hands of the people!
