Curl wrapper

[jdrewsen]

Den 23-05-2011 21:02, Masahiro Nakagawa skrev:
> On Wed, 18 May 2011 20:07:01 +0900, Jonas Drewsen <jdrewsen at nospam.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> On 18/05/11 10.09, Johannes Pfau wrote:
>>> jdrewsen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> But I would rather stop here feature wise and wrap
>>>> this thing up. I would like to focus my efforts on a candidate for
>>>> std.net.event/reactor/proactor module.
>>>
>>> Have you already started working on std.net.event? Do you plan to base
>>> that on libev / libevent?
>>
>> I'll finish the curl wrapper before starting on it.
>>
>> I have had a look at libev/event before and they are very nice libs. 
>> But I think I'll have to implement it from scratch for two reasons:
>>
>> 1, AFAIK we cannot include code in std phobos that is not boost 
>> licensed or a license as liberal. libev for example requires you to 
>> distribute the license with your software.
>>
>> 2, It introduces a dependency to an external project in phobos. 
>> Currently no dependencies are present. This makes phobos very easy to 
>> install and use out of the box.
>>
>> The optimal solution to these problems from my point of view would be 
>> to get that "much discussed" package tool in place soon (CPAN,apt alike).
>>
>> Heck, now I think about it maybe I should do that before any std.net 
>> stuff. Let's see how the wind blows - many interesting projects :)
> 
> Good!
> 
> Last year, I tried to implement std.event. In Windows, using IOCP with 
> Overlapped-IO for proactor.
> Others, IO multiplexing with worker-thread for proactor emulation.
> But Johannes already started implementing event module using libev,
> so I deleted this task from my tasks.
> 

If you have any code for inspiration or that could be used as a base I
would very much like to see/use it. Especially if it is under Boost license.

I would like to create reactor initially and proceed to build the
proactor on top of that (not on top for windows and IOCP of course).
Reactor and proactor designs each have their forces and therefore I do
not think targeting a proactor only design is the way to go.

/Jonas