On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > > > > > Today I release new version of my 'Ararat Synapse'. (rel. 32) > > > > > > > > What it is? > > > > 'Ararat Synapse' is TCP/IP library for Delphi, C++Builder and Kylix. > > > > Now it is for FreePascal too! It can be used for Wn32 systems and for > > > > Linux systems too. > > > > > > > > Synapse is set of non-visual classes and procedures for TCP/IP > > > > programming. (IPv4 and IPv6 protocols is supported). > > > > > > > > Additionally you can use my implementations of SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, > > > > SNMP, NTP, SNTP, DNS, Syslog, FTP, TFTP, HTTP or LDAP protocols. You > > > > can also use my MIME encoding and decoding engine, you can use my > > > > charset transcoding engine... and lot of more stuffs. ;-) > > > > > > > > For more informations look to 'Ararat Synapse' web. > > > > > > I looked at the unit (mainly the synsock unit), and I see a Delphi project > > > patched for Kylix, which is patched for FPC/Linux. > > > > > > If you want to make it more generic (I think Solaris/*BSD/MacOSX should be > > > possible long term), you need to clean up some things: > > > > > > - Make a global include file, that stores things like FPC mode, and > > > all the defines set in each unit. > > > - Move OS dependant things for a unit as synsock to include files or units. > > > - Separate everything under $IFDEF LINUX in real Linux stuff (like kernel > > > structures, glibc base and derived types), and "unix" generic stuff. > > > - Try to get as many of these structures etc from generic units as Linux/Unix > > > sockets etc. > > > > As far as I was told, this is explicitly not done, so an alternate TCP/IP > > implementation can be dynamically loaded. > > Why would an alternate implementation be unloadable just because the built-in > default one uses a few units? I was of course just referring to your last point: i.e. the use of structures/calls from generic units as Winsock/Linux/Unix was explicitly avoided. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
