[usocket-devel] A IOlib backend of USOCKET?

Pascal J. Bourguignon pjb at informatimago.com
Tue Oct 5 03:58:05 UTC 2010


Vsevolod Dyomkin <vseloved at gmail.com>
writes:

> It seems to me, that usocket and IOlib are two projects of mostly the
> same abstraction level, that implement alternative approaches:
> Lisp-runtime-backed and OS-backed sockets.  And it would be better, if
> the alternatives both remain.

Indeed. However you should consider the integration of libraries written
to use these competing libraries.

We had the case with UFFI and CFFI too.  There's a UFFI/CFFI
compatibility package to allow libraries using the UFFI API to work with
CFFI.

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