Re: portable socket wrappers

[Michael Torrie <torriem chem byu edu>]

On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 15:12 -0300, Alexandre Moreira wrote:
> 
> There is GNet, but I don't know it's status these days. Seemed to be
> nice, but I never used, so I can't give you any good info.

GNet is very nice and works wonderfully well with GTK, with the
exception that it does not support SSL or TLS connections.  I like that
GNet is well-integrated with glib structures, and fits right into the
event loop.  If you're going to use GTK and sockets, but don't need SSL
or TLS, gnet is the way to go.  The library is being maintained only in
that it still works with recent releases of glib.  But no new features
have been added in a couple of years.  One could argue that the only
features it is in need of is SSL and TLS.

GNet works on win32 fairly well.  There are still likely some weird
issues, but overall it seems good.  

> 
> Regards,
> Alexandre Moreira
> 
> PS: Please let me know (possibly in private mail, if off topic) what
> you think of GNet if you test it. I'll probably have the need to check
> out a few libs like that soon.

I've used Gnet in a fairly large 10,000 line of code LDAP proxy server.
Gnet and Glib together proved a winning combination.  In the end, the
program does many dynamically allocated tree structures and thanks to
Glib, there are no known memory leaks, even after running for weeks.

Michael

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