Re: Ada networking (Adagio)

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Monday, August 20, 2012 2:59:00 AM UTC-6, Álex R. Mosteo wrote:
> Shark8 wrote:
> 
> > Hey, I was hoping to get a bit more familiar with using Ada for networking
> > programs; I found referenced to Adagio, which is supposed to be (or have
> > been, it's inactive now) a Gnutella2 program.
> > 
> > The project is inactive and none of the files appear to have been
> > archived/downloadable. The last known source was contained in a zipfile
> > adagio-src.2.1.e.zip, which I cannot find for download either.
> > 
> > I was wondering if anyone on this thread might have a copy laying around
> > on their HD.
> 
> 
> I'm the author and I'm pretty sure I keep the whole history in some archived 
> SVN. If you're interested I could try to dig it out. Also, perhaps I could 
> simply convert it to git and put it in github.

Ah, that would be nice; I did get the zip from Martin though.


> I'm not sure how good a resource it is for learning from; I did learn a lot 
> about blocking and non-blocking sockets when programming that (I 
> experimented with both approaches -- IIRC a stack size related thread limit 
> in Windows prompted me to abandon blocking IO in the end), but the code more 
> or less grew up with little foreplanning.

Ah, I know how that is. The thing that's bugging me about it right now is the gnatpatch and runtime-configuration errors. (Still trying to figure them out.)