If I have time, which should be freeing up towards the end of the year, then I would like to work on this. Should we leverage the Reactive Extensions for this? It seems a good fit, and it would give us the ability to more easily mimic sockets (if I understand sockets correctly).
Ryan Riley Email: ryan.ri...@panesofglass.org LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanriley Blog: http://wizardsofsmart.net/ Website: http://panesofglass.org/ On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Ivan Porto Carrero <i...@flanders.co.nz>wrote: > Anybody wanna join in getting eventmachine working on IronRuby? > > We can probably do 1 better than the C based implementation on windows > simply because .NET has all the necessary classes and exposes the events we > need. > For example in the C-based version you can't use EM.popen on windows > because they need a PID and a few events, which exist on the Process class > in .NET. > > .NET has a cross platform FileSystemWatcher > .NET has sockets with events > .NET has events on a Process > > those are all we need AFAICT to get eventmachine working and also make > EM.system and EM.popen work on windows that don't work currently. The only > remaining issue on windows is then the unix sockets but we can do without > those I guess. > > getting eventmachine to work brings us closer to or gives us > Thin > Blather > AMQP > Nanite > .... > > And probably every 2nd library that uses the network and cares about not > polling. > I will still be busy for another month or so with the book but then I > really want to get going with this. > --- > Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations > Ivan Porto Carrero > Blog: http://flanders.co.nz > Google Wave: portocarrero.i...@googlewave.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/casualjim > Author of IronRuby in Action (http://manning.com/carrero) > > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > >
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