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From: davlet_panech (davlet_panech_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-01 09:58:44


--- In boost_at_y..., "Dale Peakall" <dale.peakall_at_b...> wrote:
>
> I thought that we'd sort of decided that what we were writing here
> was a TCP/IP library, not sockets in the more general sense.
>
> If you're going to start going down the multi-protocol route, then
> things really start getting complex.
>

I don't think we are going to support anything besides TCP (and
possibly UDP), all I'm saying we should try to keep our design
flexible to allow for extensions.

> Things are complex enough as they are. Do you try and support
> asynchronous communications?

Some people fell strongly about supporting async operations (although
I personally do not mind dropping this).

D.P.


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