Sockets

[Maciej Sobczak <no.spam@no.spam.com>]

Hi,

Let's say that I would like to write an Ada program that uses sockets 
and compile and run it on my Linux box.

There three ways to do this that I'm aware of:

1. Use GNAT runtime library. The advantage is that it will be portable 
to other platforms (as long as GNAT and its library is portable there).

2. Use C interfacing and call the system functions directly. The 
advantage is that it will be portable to other compilers on the same 
platform (no dependency on GNAT run-time libs).

3. Use Florist. The disadvantage is that I'm too lazy to install it 
(it's another package) and I don't want to impose this requirement on 
other lazy users of the same code.

Is the above correct? What would you recommend?

BTW - Unix sockets are of interest as well.

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