On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, Luc Fabresse wrote:
Yes, but hopefully we will be SocketPlugin free.
Is SocketPlugin buggy? If yes, where's the bug report? If not, what's the problem with it?
At the end, "There can be only one" (FFI or Alien or NB or a better one) ;-) IMHO, plugins are a pain to understand, maintain, integrate in the latest VM... so let's kill them as much as possible.
Maintaining SocketPlugin (or reimplementing for a new plaform) is a lot easier than doing the same with FFI or Alien. Eliot's threaded FFI plugin is very complex compared to (the pretty simple) SocketPlugin.
Levente
