• Mark Evans (7/7) Nov 05 2002 FYI - perhaps could be built into D? BSD style license.
• Evan McClanahan (5/15) Nov 07 2002 It's HUGE. It'll take a look at it, but it looks too damn big to port
• Mark Evans (6/9) Nov 07 2002 I wasn't proposing a port. I was proposing that it be built-in to D. I...
• Mark T (7/12) Nov 08 2002 make
• Mark Evans (8/11) Nov 08 2002 Every language has some kind of standard runtime library. That is where...

Mark Evans <Mark_member pathlink.com> writes:

FYI - perhaps could be built into D?  BSD style license.

Home page
http://www.riverace.com/

Class tree
http://doc.ece.uci.edu/Doxygen/Stable/html/ace/inherits.html

Intro
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~levine/courses/cs342/patterns/ACE-intro_4.pdf

Evan McClanahan <evan dontSPAMaltarinteractive.com> writes:

Mark Evans wrote:
 FYI - perhaps could be built into D?  BSD style license.
 
 Home page
 http://www.riverace.com/
 
 Class tree
 http://doc.ece.uci.edu/Doxygen/Stable/html/ace/inherits.html
 
 Intro
 http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~levine/courses/cs342/patterns/ACE-intro_4.pdf

It's HUGE.  It'll take a look at it, but it looks too damn big to port 
without a rock solid C++ -> D converter.  I've looked at it before, and 
it looks nice, but I'm not sure that it's a free-time type of port.

Evan

Mark Evans <Mark_member pathlink.com> writes:

It's HUGE.  It'll take a look at it, but it looks too damn big to port 
without a rock solid C++ -> D converter.  I've looked at it before, and 
it looks nice, but I'm not sure that it's a free-time type of port.

I wasn't proposing a port.  I was proposing that it be built-in to D.  It could
stay in C++ but provide networking services to the D language as built-in calls.

It is huge, but also cross-platform, and mature, and well-designed.  They make
some very good points about socket programming.  I'd much rather use ACE than
sockets.

Mark

"Mark T" <mt nospam.com> writes:

 I wasn't proposing a port.  I was proposing that it be built-in to D.  It

could
 stay in C++ but provide networking services to the D language as built-in

calls.
 It is huge, but also cross-platform, and mature, and well-designed.  They

make
 some very good points about socket programming.  I'd much rather use ACE

than
 sockets.

  I hope D the language remains somewhat separate from its standard
libraries, GUI, etc
i.e. this stuff doesn't belong in D itself.

Mark Evans <Mark_member pathlink.com> writes:

  I hope D the language remains somewhat separate from its standard
libraries, GUI, etc
i.e. this stuff doesn't belong in D itself.

Every language has some kind of standard runtime library.  That is where ACE
would belong in D.

Theoretically you can write MS Visual C++ programs without calling the MS Visual
C++ runtime libs.  I know of zero useful applications like that.

Ultimately D will need some kind of networking support.  Raw Win32 really
stinks, as the ACE tutorials document.  And raw Win32 sockets are not
cross-platform.  ACE is.

Mark