Re: asynchronous socket library

2013-07-17 Thread Mark H Weaver
m...@markwitmer.com writes: > Reading and writing to a socket seems to lend itself well to custom > binary ports, Why do you say that? For most purposes, Guile's native file ports are superior, and they seem the natural choice for sockets. > but then I think you're stuck with an opaque buffer --

GNU Guix 0.3 released

2013-07-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
We are pleased to announce GNU Guix version 0.3, the third alpha release, representing 254 commits by 6 people over 2 months. • About GNU Guix is a functional package manager and distribution of the GNU system. In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transacti

Re: asynchronous socket library

2013-07-17 Thread mark
Mark H Weaver writes: > m...@markwitmer.com writes: >> Reading and writing to a socket seems to lend itself well to custom >> binary ports, > > Why do you say that? For most purposes, Guile's native file ports are > superior, and they seem the natural choice for sockets. > I over-generalized. I