My english sucks :P. It's "How can I help with that?" xD
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Guillermo Polito <guillermopol...@gmail.com > wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Stéphane Ducasse < > stephane.duca...@inria.fr> wrote: > >> >> > Stef, Noury, >> > >> > Thanks for doing this, and for the preview! >> > >> > Sometimes being a good friend means getting tough, and it's time for >> that. You are doing a great job of writing up how to create poorly designed >> socket applications. They are poorly designed because of what we inherit >> from Squeak. Servers should not listen for a time period; they need to >> listen until told otherwise, and trigger events (notifications if preferred) >> when a client tries to connect, at which point a dedicated process accepts >> the connection - that process more or less is the server. Clients should >> try to connect and read until told otherwise, either by a watchdog thread or >> by a user. Nothing should block in either case except the calling Smalltalk >> Process. If a client program does not hang because of a non-responsive >> server, an interacting user has the opportunity to hit a cancel button and >> put an end to wasted effort, or a watchdog can run and similarly #erminate >> the offending thread. >> >> John pointed us to a kind of socket that raises events on data. >> Our problem is that we do not have manpower for that. >> >> > IMHO, we should not direct energy at documenting the current state of >> sockets; we should do the few remaining things to get something that really >> works. At the same time, we should try as much as possible to allow IrDA >> and OpenSSL to appear as options. >> >> Noury and luc started to rewrite sockets using Alien and people can help. >> Nothing will happen magically :) >> >> How should I help with that (a little)? > > Cheers, > Guille > >> >> > >> > Bill >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >> > >
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