[fpc-pascal] why connect is "deprecated"

[Xiangrong Fang]

using the socket like read/write file is very convenient.  This is the
first time I use fpc to write socket program, it is much easier than I used
Indy or ICS in Delphi several years ago.

I hope to "modernize" or make it more stable, instead of deprecate it.  Of
course deprecate Connect and use fpConnect + Sock2Text manually is not a
big deal.


2013/4/16 Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>

>
> On 16 Apr 2013, at 12:13, Marco van de Voort wrote:
>
>  In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said:
>>
>>> As far as I can see, all errors are returned via inoutres/IOResult in
>>> the same way as happens with disk-based IO.
>>>
>>
>> Yes. An attempt is made to map some of the errors to I/O. Anyway, if sb
>> wants to support and modernize them, I have no problem with that. But that
>> hasn't happened since 2005-2007 or so.
>>
>
> What needs to be modernised about it? It's not like our disk i/o error
> code handles many more different error codes, nor are those errors much
> more specific. I remember the old discussion, but I never understood how
> the error reporting of the sockets code and the generic I/O code differed
> in a way that made the former worse than the latter.
>
>
>  That would also make it possible to directly map socketerror to
>> getlastresult/fpgeterrno, instead of caching it in another threadvar.
>>
>
> IIRC the problem with removing socketerror would be that it could easily
> break existing code (given that socketerror is not overwritten by calls
> other than those from the sockets unit).
>
>
> Jonas
>
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