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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: No networking in Florist?
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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:03:57 +0200
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Manuel Gomez writes:
> On 16 oct, 09:18, Jacob Sparre Andersen <spa...@nbi.dk> wrote:
>> Manuel Gomez wrote:
>> > On 14 oct, 07:01, Jacob Sparre Andersen <spa...@nbi.dk> wrote:
>> >> What's the reason that Florist (the POSIX.5 interface) doesn't
>> >> include networking?
>> > We have POSIX.Sockets, isn't that enough for networking?
>>
>> I can't find them in the versions of Florist I have on my systems
>> (Debian/unstable and Ubuntu/7.04).
>>
>
> I'm now aware that I had got installed an old package of Florist named
> libflorist-3.15p-1-dev which seems to be removed from Debian Etch [1].
> The new package in Debian, libflorist-dev 2006-1, does not include
> posix-sockets.
>
> The Sourceforge project [2] does come with sockets.
>
> I wonder why. May be sockets support is buggy with current compiler?

I maintain the Debian packages. I did not remove sockets from Florist;
they were removed upstream.  Can you live with GNAT.Sockets as an
alternative?

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.