Re: select()/poll() on Win32: possible funding, but is it insane?

On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 07:12:08PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
> 
> dunno where you should start, but whatever you do, please don't make it
> specific to IPC::Run.

Making it specific to IPC::Run is a last resort, our first preference is
to make it as transparent as possible to users of select() and/or
poll(), thus enabling as much cross platform portability as possible for
Perl code.  But that's an ideal goal, we'll see how close we can get
with a reasonable amount of effort.  Nick's PerlIO subsystem is the only
thing that makes it tenable, I think.

> a portable event system would be the best route. if you can use the
> PerlIO system and make it have an event interface like Event.pm.

In fact, I would be happy to port IPC::Run to Event or POE were either
cross platform wrt events on filehandles of all stripes and timers.  I
gave some thought to doing that anyway (see archives for spoor) and
there's been no demand from anyone for it, so never bothered.

I've had to forgo any perl6 involvement, much to my dismay.  Life's just
way too busy.

- Barrie