At present I am working on a pkgconfig based build system for Felix, and Mike is working on a package manager. The aim is to replace the Python build system, and provide a way to get add-ons.
These efforts will be forcibly cojoined by the mission critical use case described below. Expect some pain! The Felix core system is very carefully designed to allow it to run WITHOUT asynchronous I/O support. Async I/O provides event driven socket I/O which blocks fibres but not pthreads, and also alarm clocks. The "demux" library provides platform specific polling functions nested in a monitoring pthread. The "faio" package provides a platform independent wrapper on top of this to do the actual I/O. The Felix system run time framework "normally" runs without any asynchronous I/O support. There are both static link and dynamic link variants of "flx_run". To support async I/O you have to use "flx_arun". In the dynamic version, there is a "hook" for pluging in asynchronous I/O support, which is done by loading a DLL. In the static version, the hooking is prepared by the static linker. However in BOTH cases, async I/O is started on demand. So if you don't use it, you don't pay for it. The hook starts off as NULL pointer and is set to the actual async I/O system when required. Now the point of this description: the async I/O system is OPTIONAL. Its just a rather special kind of "plugin". It is should NOT required to build any of the core tools like flx_pkgconfig, flx, etc. [It is needed for the webserver, obviously :] In other words .. the async system should be in the litterbox. -- john skaller skal...@users.sourceforge.net http://felix-lang.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Felix-language mailing list Felix-language@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/felix-language
