Re: redmond event loop

Uri Guttman <[email protected]> writes:
>nick and/or joshua,
>
>what is the possibility of a win2k/nt event loop that i could use for
>stem? i have a potential customer with many unix boxes but unfortunately
>redmond also is in the picture. joshua has stated it wouldn't be too
>hard (??) to move event.pm to winblows. what about the perl/tk event
>loop? i am under the impression it works under winblows. 

The Tk event loop works (after a fashion) on Win32 and is a 
self-contained XS module Tk::Event (Tk uses Tk::Event rather than 
vice versa). The snag is that 'fileevent' is seriously flawed on 
Win32 - e.g. you cannot wait for a 'listen' socket to be readable,
nor on pipes, nor console. Basically only 'data' sockets work.
The PerlIO stuff is intended to allow that to be fixed the same 
way Tcl/Tk fixed it - by using per-handle versions of read() etc. 
rather than C run-times flawed faking of UNIX semantics.


>could i use it
>standalone or in a minimal way without any graphics stuff? my event
>objects totally hide any underlying event system from view so it would
>be easy to integrate any other event subsystem.
>
>any comments or thoughts are welcome here. condolences are welcome
>too. i wanted to keep stem a pure unix system for a while but if this
>big potential customer buys in, i have to support redmond asap.
>
>thanx,
>
>uri
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Nick Ing-Simmons <[email protected]>
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