leftsock update and related
- Posted by cense <cense at mail.ru> Aug 22, 2000
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hey everyone. here is one more update about leftsock ( im sure most of you dont care ). I have decided to revamp the library to make it easier to use and hide even more of the "C" socket API from the end user. This is basically just improving the leftsock API so that it is more user friendly and consistent. I am doin this for a few reasons but the main ones are that it makes my job easier to handle for future enhancements, the end user will not have to know much about "C" socket programming to use leftsock and there was a need for some type of standard API. Older versions of leftsock had a very inconsistent API throughout. The old version was very disorganized and the code was really mixed up as well. That previous state would have been useless to any testers or documentation people. To imcorporate all of this stuff, i will need more time to come out with the beta version for testers, but i think it will be worth the wait. One more thing, after i have a working version of leftsock done ( CAUTION: VAPORWARE ALERT! ) i plan to code more wrapper libs that are designed to make linux IPC programming available to Euphoria users. I know Jeff has a linux pipe and I/O library already so that will be the last thing on the list for a while. ( if i ever do it ) All those libs ( vaporware for now ) will be named by "left" standards so that users can easily identify what lib they need/want e.g. semaphors lib -> leftsem shared memory lib -> leftshare, etc you get the idea. Well anyway, that was long and pointless but i thought i might let a few people know about my plans. -- cense a member of the ak-software development team http://ak-software.virtualave.net/ contract work for Web Velocity IT inc. http://www.webvelocity.ca/