[postmodern-devel] development plans for discussion

[Attila Lendvai]

hi!

i have two changes planned:

1) use babel for string encoding/decoding (
http://common-lisp.net/~loliveira/soc07/babel/ ). the rationale is
that it's a very nice cross platform unicode lib which is also very
fast. Marijn, i hope you will not take it as offense! i know
trivial-utf8 is your work, but i hope the speed and the de facto
standardness of babel compensates. (Luis will give babel more
publicity in the next weeks, but it's available for months now and i'm
using it without problems).

2) use iolib for the socket code. i would like to do that because we
are experiencing problems when dealing with sockets on sbcl when the
system is under heavy load. another reason is that iolib is another
nice piece of code, although its also more heavyweight then usocket
and also posix-only (currently). i know you prefer simple libs, just
like with ironclad/md5, but we need stability and this seems to be the
simplest way to achive it.

what do you think of these changes?

-- 
 attila