Re: [MACTCL] reinstalling after crashes...

[Daniel A. S. <st...@ic...>]

At 12:05 +0200 on 25/8/01, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

>I know several applications using the GUSI (at SourceForge) MacPython,
>and several more, and that seems to work ok. GUSI is like POSIX sockets
>on the mac using OT under the hood. Couldn't it be possible to just
>replace the mac specific socket code with the unix one, and use GUSI
>for all socket stuff? After all, the unix socket code is very well tested.
>Anyone knows something more about GUSI?

I know GUSI quite well, I have worked with it in the past, but not on MacTcl.

AFAIK the socket code in MacTcl predates GUSI, which is why it wasn't used :-)

Using GUSI in MacTcl would indeed essentially mean ripping all the 
existing socket code out and replacing it with the UNIX codebase 
adapted for GUSI. Gluing  UNIX code into the Mac codebase for e.g. 
channels may prove more challenging than you might think, it 
certainly would not just be a drop in deal...

While this may very well be possible, it would be no small job, I 
certainly don't have time for it myself.

However, I'm happy to help somebody else getting started to look into this.

Cheers

Daniel
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