Re: [MACTCL] Re: memory & sockets

[Jim I. <ji...@ap...>]

Mats,
>
> Jim wrote
>>
>> Actually, Ray used GUSI for a while, but that was in its first
>> incarnation - on top of MacTCP, IIRC - and going through the Tcl layer,
>> through the GUSI layer, to the flakey Mac layer, was very unstable, so
>> he hand-rolled the current code on top of MacTCP.
>
> We cannot judge GUSI from its status several years ago. From its docs,
> there are a lot of changes; two updates this summer. And this guy, 
> Matthias,
> refers to bug fixes with MacPerl bug numbers, so it gets some 
> maintanence.
> I don't say it's good, I just don't know.
> You can build it for either MacTCP or OpenTransport now.
>
>

I was not saying anything bad about GUSI as it stands now, I also don't 
know how well it works, and a lot of effort was put into it since Ray 
decided not to use it.  I was just clearing up a point of (admittedly 
somewhat limited) historical interest.

Jim
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