[phobos] Breaking changes for std.socket improvement

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 09/08/2010 09:02 AM, Masahiro Nakagawa wrote:
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All sounds good! One funny detail:

>> * 2310: what does byes mean?
>
> I don't know, but I think byes stands for "blocking yes".

This is cool :o). I had two hypotheses: typo for "bytes" or some sort of 
closing ack (plural for "bye").

>> * 2934: select() has well-known issues. Any plans to support the newer
>> system-dependent APIs or libevent?
>
> I will remove select() from Socket in new module.
>
> I am thinking about std.event.
> This module supports system-dependent APIs(kqueue, epoll, etc...) and
> abstraction layer.

That would be awesome. Sean was also thinking of it and could provide 
code review. At best we'd integrate std.event with thread messages.


Thanks,

Andrei