[Q] What is the status of the "network rewrite?"

Chris Muller afunkyobject at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 27 23:39:02 UTC 2003


> The low level interface to Socket hasn't changed that much in the 
> rewrite. You can see the difference by comparing the ocde in OldSocket 
> and Socket. You may also want to consider using SocketStream to put a 
> stram abstraction between your server code and the network/Socket 
> communication.

Hi Michael, thanks for your prompt reply.  The first thing I did was compare
OldSocket to Socket and I noticed an implementation difference other than API. 
OldSocket>>waitForAcceptUntil: appears to have been renamed in
Socket>>waitForAcceptFor:.  However, the new method does not return the new
socket instance which is a critical bug, I think.

So I guess what I'm really trying to figure out is, is there work still being
done on Socket?  If not, I would expect that such a critical class would have
been well regression tested.  If so, I may hold off on porting my code.

Is Socket good to go?  Can I port my code to the new Socket API, or should I
wait?

Thanks,
 Chris



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