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-Thread: 103376,24c70f80132ea540 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!club-internet.fr!feedme-small.clubint.net!nuzba.szn.dk!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No networking in Florist? Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:44:45 +0200 Organization: Jacob's private Usenet server Message-ID: References: <1192474217.628674.65600@v29g2000prd.googlegroups.com> <1192564043.758890.163550@e34g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <871wbuk982.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: taasingegade.news.jacob-sparre.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: jacob-sparre.dk 1192599885 24625 85.82.239.166 (17 Oct 2007 05:44:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:44:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WEv5zm2MMIBS1M09r28Vn2mzq/w= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:2469 Date: 2007-10-17T07:44:45+02:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta wrote: > 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? I can, but there are some problems with it: * I prefer to use a standardised API instead of a proprietary one. * I've had to hack GNAT.Sockets to get POSIX.IO.File_Descriptors out of it. Greetings, Jacob -- "Don't get me wrong, perl is an OK operating system, but it lacks a lightweight scripting language."