[Aware-list] News on the next release

[Russell L. <ru...@el...>]

I have been restructuring the internals of the event engine. The basic 
design change is that everything is a "handler" and handlers can 
register callbacks for "interrupts" with a specified schedule as well as 
for events on file descriptors. The later is implmented using POSIX real 
time signals. The hope is that high performance, low latency networking 
applications can be implemented using this framework.

The changes will allow for:

    * All handlers to execute either on a prescribe schedule OR as a
      result of events
    * High performance, low latency io using true async mechanisms
    * Code consolidation, over previous Aware versions

Along with the core event engine changes, I plan to add some useful 
applications that will illustrate the use these features. Right now I am 
thinking of:

    * A multicast file copy program
    * A bittorrent implementation

This change should be compatable with previous versions at the 'wire' 
script level, although there will no longer be "probe" objects. The wire 
file parser will convert all "create probe" directives to "create 
handler" directives in order to keep old wire scripts running.