On 27 November 2011 02:25, Bernd <prof7bit@....> wrote: > > 3 months, so there are still some signs of life:
If you are lucky, 2-3 commits a year. I'd say LNet is on life support, with the battery charge running very low. But then, it just takes on dedicated developer to revive a dying project. >> The other problem with LNet is that it doesn't have a lot of TCP >> protocols implemented. > > This might be a valid point, depending on what you need it for. I don't know of any other TCP component suite that has so many protocols implemented. Indy has over a 100+ protocols implemented - that is just amazing. And in nearly all cases, those protocols include the client and server parts - this is something that is mostly missing from all other competing projects. PS: I have just completed full cross-platform n-tier support in tiOPF - thanks to Indy. :-) Finally, n-tier support with FPC. No need for something like CORBA, Midas or TCientDataset. tiOPF's n-tier support uses HTTP + XML. The XML nodes are compacted (short node names instead of long names - configurable by developer), then base64 encoded, then zlib'ed (configurable by developer) before transmission. Now that I have it working, I'll see if I can implement JSON support too - reducing the data packets even further, because XML is very verbose. And what is really cool, is that I can switch between local (offline) storage, client/server or n-tier by simply changing a compiler define - no code changes required at all in my projects! Awesome. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://fpgui.sourceforge.net -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
