On Jan 29, 2010, at 3:20 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > I for one never said we should throw out the new network code. But, we've > been living in collective denial trying to reduce it to one defect when it is > actually more complicated than that. > > Having cited the over-use of inheritance of the Squeak image as a source of > various problems, I will add that inheritance *should* be used in > NetNameResolver - specifically, we should group the ipv4 and ipv6 primitive > sends into protocol-specific subclasses. Errors that are now weird-looking > primitive failures will suddenly become DNU errors with an obvious cause. > > We should further send SocketAddress to its reward and make any required > changes to use an aspect-based address that can lazily help with name > resolution, and does not drag the port number into the address. The socket > primitives will have to change at the same time (I think). > > IMHO, the only quick fix is to go back to known working network code, at > which point we can plan for IPv6 in a future milestone. I urge the next > attempt be based on an improved design, hopefully one that will allow OpenSSL > sockets along with the usual suspects.
I vote for exploring if libevent would be a possibility.... this is the library that the TOR project did for their strange needs, it seems it was picked up by google for Chromium and Memcached. http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/01/libevent-20x-like-libevent-14x-only.html Libevent 2.0.x is the new version of Libevent from the Tor Project. Libevent is a software library whose purpose is to provide consistent fast interfaces to various operating systems' mutually incompatible fast networking facilities. No idea if it's useful as the base-layer of a new networking stack, but at least worth a look. Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
