On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 07:38 -0700, John Lam (IRONRUBY) wrote:

> Peter Bacon Darwin:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Do you think it would be worthwhile to just have folks use the .NET Socket 
> support in Silverlight and not bother having a "ruby" socket implementation? 
> In this case I still have to figure out how to conditionally compile stuff 
> against the same Initializer.Generated.cs - I might have to add a pre-build 
> step to force its generation.
> 
> Thanks,
> -John


Did you say PreBuild?

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