On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.duca...@inria.fr > wrote:
> > > Stef, Noury, > > > > Thanks for doing this, and for the preview! > > > > Sometimes being a good friend means getting tough, and it's time for > that. You are doing a great job of writing up how to create poorly designed > socket applications. They are poorly designed because of what we inherit > from Squeak. Servers should not listen for a time period; they need to > listen until told otherwise, and trigger events (notifications if preferred) > when a client tries to connect, at which point a dedicated process accepts > the connection - that process more or less is the server. Clients should > try to connect and read until told otherwise, either by a watchdog thread or > by a user. Nothing should block in either case except the calling Smalltalk > Process. If a client program does not hang because of a non-responsive > server, an interacting user has the opportunity to hit a cancel button and > put an end to wasted effort, or a watchdog can run and similarly #erminate > the offending thread. > > John pointed us to a kind of socket that raises events on data. > Our problem is that we do not have manpower for that. > > > IMHO, we should not direct energy at documenting the current state of > sockets; we should do the few remaining things to get something that really > works. At the same time, we should try as much as possible to allow IrDA > and OpenSSL to appear as options. > > Noury and luc started to rewrite sockets using Alien and people can help. > Nothing will happen magically :) > > How should I help with that (a little)? Cheers, Guille > > > > > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >
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