Hi all I'm back and am keen to work on getting this patch accepted. Concerns I've so far seen raised include 1. bos: It breaks the existing stable API I need more information on this; I can't see what's broken unless the change of sendTo and recvFrom to datagram functions is what is considered broken. I'd argue the current sendTo and recvFrom functions are what is broken in terms of usefulness and how their functionality fits their names. This patch fixes that. 2. bos: It restricts to AF_INET As far as my testing has shown it should also work with AF_UNIX. To get it working with AF_UNIX the patch also includes a bugfix in Network.Socket. As such, the patch should hopefully reduce the current AF_INET restriction. 3. dons: Similar work has been done on HAppS and HaskellNet I'm keen to integrate any ideas from these platforms. I'm discussing it with S. Alexander Jacobson. If anyone can outline some good ideas from these platforms that should be included in the patch I'll gladly look into it. However, It's meant to be a simple change to make sendTo and recvFrom act as expected of network utilities with those names while providing convenient and efficient datagram utilities similar to what exists for stream based connections rather than add too many features. 4. me: It's not tested as well as I'd like I'm having trouble testing with hugs. runhugs -98 ./Setup.hs build returns 'ERROR "dist/build/Network/BSD.hs" - Can't find imported module "GHC.IOBase"'. Something screwy with hsc2hs or cpphs? I don't have windows so still haven't tested that. Can any Windows users help please? On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 00:17 +0900, Robert Marlow wrote:
I've made a proposal to add ByteString based datagram communication to Network.Socket and Network. Details are at:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1238#preview
I rushed to get this done before I go on a trip tomorrow so I haven't completed testing and won't be available to discuss it for the next 9 days. As such, if discussion is needed, an extended deadline would be appreciated.
Testing windows is a bit awkward for me since I don't have a windows machine, so if anyone can test that platform I'd be very appreciative. I'll try to work through the problems I was having with hugs and test when I get back unless someone else wants to test it first.
Thanks.
-- Robert Marlow MITS Co-operative Limited http://www.mits.coop/