Re: Sockets

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Given Randy's earlier post about the ARG being out looking for APIs, maybe
GNAT.Sockets should be proposed (the specification - not the whole thing) as
a potential Ada.Sockets. (Or CLAW.Sockets as an alternate?) In either case,
I wouldn't be too upset that the current underlying implementations aren't
portable across all compilers. What matters is if the spec is at least
common/portable across compilers. (Aonix isn't likely to want to adopt
anything named "GNAT.<whatever>" :-) It would be nice to take some Gnat code
that used sockets over to an ObjectAda compiler and have it go to town
without having to rewrite the points of contact with the Sockets interface
to the OS.

The good news about having an Ada.Sockets would be that since there are
already existing connections to Sockets that come with or will work with
most compilers, implementing it as an addition to the language would
probably mostly amount to a bunch of "renames" declarations. (Or at least a
really thin binding.) Each compiler may have its own specific underlying
package, but a common interfact to it would be really nice.

MDC
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Marin David Condic
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Pace Micro Technology Americas    www.pacemicro.com
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"Steve Doiel" <nospam_steved94@attbi.com> wrote in message
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>
> I can say that GNAT.Sockets doesn't work (without modification) with
> ObjectAda 7.2.1.  It appears to be dependent on a few gnat specific
> libraries.  It might not be very difficult to produce a portable version.
>