[fpc-pascal]Synapse for FPC

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> > On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> >
> > > > Today I release new version of my 'Ararat Synapse'. (rel. 32)
> > > >
> > > > What it is?
> > > > 'Ararat Synapse' is TCP/IP library for Delphi, C++Builder and Kylix.
> > > > Now it is for FreePascal too! It can be used for Wn32 systems and for
> > > > Linux systems too.
> > > >
> > > > Synapse is set of non-visual classes and procedures for TCP/IP
> > > > programming. (IPv4 and IPv6 protocols is supported).
> > > >
> > > > Additionally you can use my implementations of SMTP, POP3, IMAP4,
> > > > SNMP, NTP, SNTP, DNS, Syslog, FTP, TFTP, HTTP or LDAP protocols. You
> > > > can also use my MIME encoding and decoding engine, you can use my
> > > > charset transcoding engine... and lot of more stuffs. ;-)
> > > >
> > > > For more informations look to 'Ararat Synapse' web.
> > >
> > > I looked at the unit (mainly the synsock unit), and I see a Delphi project
> > > patched for Kylix, which is patched for FPC/Linux.
> > >
> > > If you want to make it more generic (I think Solaris/*BSD/MacOSX should be
> > > possible long term), you need to clean up some things:
> > >
> > > - Make a global include file, that stores things like FPC mode, and
> > > 	all the defines set in each unit.
> > > - Move OS dependant things for a unit as synsock to include files or units.
> > > - Separate everything under $IFDEF LINUX in real Linux stuff (like kernel
> > > 	structures, glibc base and derived types), and "unix" generic stuff.
> > > - Try to get as many of these structures etc from generic units as Linux/Unix
> > >       sockets etc.
> >
> > As far as I was told, this is explicitly not done, so an alternate TCP/IP
> > implementation can be dynamically loaded.
>
> Why would an alternate implementation be unloadable just because the built-in
> default one uses a few units?

I was of course just referring to your last point: i.e. the use of
structures/calls from generic units as Winsock/Linux/Unix was explicitly
avoided.

Michael.