From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2d69f4a8070dd707 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-02 17:38:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada.Networks.Sockets hierarchy for standardization? (sf: ada0y-net-std) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 19:39:47 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: <3ED83712.8090905@cogeco.ca> <3ED806D3.5030001@cogeco.ca> <3EDB81DB.4040503@cogeco.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3719.2500 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38414 Date: 2003-06-02T19:39:47-05:00 List-Id: Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote in message <3EDB81DB.4040503@cogeco.ca>... >Based upon the submission deadlines, I think it would be very ambitious >to pull anything together for the fall, let alone December, unless >someone else wants to lead the charge for this. I was under the mistaken >impression that we had a little more time. Thinking about it now, it >only makes sense for them to cut it off there. Yeah, I was thinking it was further off, too. Time to get to work! >The Source Forge project has been created (I just received confirmation). > >Is there any interest in producing a networking library that goes >beyond sockets? As Randy has pointed out, there are already 3 versions >of socket bindings available, and a 4th if you include the partially >complete POSIX interface in Florist. Tom has been working on such a thing based on Claw.Sockets (minus Claw), but we never came up with a snappy name for it. He has FTP and HTTP client packages (which I've used to save a lot of time on some quicky utilities) and a bunch of other things as well. It would be useful to put together a group to work on it (we'd especially like to see a Linux body for the Sockets packages, because it would help find and eliminate any lingering Window-isms in the package specs) or a similar alternative. It may be best to develop a truly wide-ranging and portable library as a de-facto standard rather than try to get one ready in a few months. Randy.