I see that the Ruby.StandardLibrary.RubySocket is implemented in C#.
Is it common to write the core in C#? Has anything been written in
Ruby itself?
Sorry for the newbie question... is there a FAQ for this type of
situation?
On May 7, 2008, at 2:19 AM, Peter Bacon Darwin wrote:
The .NET Socket library is a fairly thin layer that sits on top of
WinSock.
Clearly Silverlight would not be able to do this since WinSock is
not a
standard API on other OSes. Also, Silverlight is going to have
additional
security restrictions that would prevent much of the Socket library
from
work anyway.
To be honest, even the full .NET Framework socket implementation
does not
fully support all the features required by the Ruby socket
library. I have
been struggling to get the Socket class working - it is not pretty.
This is partly to do with the way the Ruby socket library is
implemented.
In particular, the Socket class provides access to low level C API
methods,
which differ from system to system. In the best case this results in
slightly inconsistent behaviour and different errors being raised.
In the
worst case it is not possible to write portable Ruby code that uses
the
socket library, unless you restrict yourself to well defined methods.
It seems reasonable that, since the Ruby Socket library is somewhat OS
dependent anyway, we should agree upon a subset of the
functionality to
support, particularly with regards to Silverlight. Perhaps this
should be
based upon common usage in programs like Mongrel? I suspect that
like many
of these things, we may end up having to code up some stuff in
straight .NET
(is this possible with socket-type things?)
Pete
John Lam wrote:
Specifically on your contribution, I'm having a heck of a time
getting it
to compile under Silverlight. I'm going to block off some more time
tomorrow
to see what I can do. Sockets are only partially implemented in
Silverlight, so I have to figure out the delta. Don't worry about
making
changes - once > I get it compiling under SL, I'll check it in and
you can
modify my changes :)
Thanks,
-John
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