Re: Ada Networking (General/Design)

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, August 12, 2012 6:10:22 PM UTC-6, (unknown) wrote:
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> > In a related, though only tangential, vein to my other Ada-networking thread, I thought it would be good to ask what [you find] the best way to handle network-communication is.
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> > Is it using Streams? Wrapping up IP-ports and packets in their own interface-packages and using those? Something I'm not even thinking of? (In short, I'm curious as to how other Ada programmers approach it.)
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> Depending on its applicability to your situation, the DSA is perhaps the most elegant solution; simply take the whole thing to the next level higher, and avoid network programming altogether.

LOL -- True; I *really* like the underlying ideas for the DSA. (That doesn't mean that I really understand the bits-n-pieces/nitty-gritty... but you have to start somewhere.)

Though there's a lot of programs (or it would be more correct to say 'networks') that aren't DSA but might be useful. Say something like SETI@Home, or EDonkey/Gnutilla/BitTorrent --I know for certain there are Bittorrents being used to distribute people's software, probably most prominently certain linux flavors-- and they are likely going to need some interfacing support... I really don't see how it would be possible to "overlay the DSA" such that it enables you to treat those as part of your local system.