From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric M. Ludlam" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re[3]: struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:26:57 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200203191326.g2JDQvO20890@beta.siege-engine.com> References: <5x1yehpj1w.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200203190138.g2J1cKN17854@beta.siege-engine.com> <5xlmcod8cg.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016544627 1440 127.0.0.1 (19 Mar 2002 13:30:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:30:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16nJh5-0000N8-00 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:30:27 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16nJmN-00065Y-00 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:35:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16nJgt-0006Hv-00; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:30:15 -0500 Original-Received: from choochoo.ultranet.com ([146.115.254.62] helo=beta.siege-engine.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16nJds-00069R-00 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:27:08 -0500 Original-Received: (from zappo@localhost) by beta.siege-engine.com (8.11.6/8.11.2) id g2JDQvO20890; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:26:57 -0500 Original-To: storm@cua.dk In-Reply-To: <5xlmcod8cg.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (storm@cua.dk) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2039 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2039 >>> storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) seems to think that: >"Eric M. Ludlam" writes: > >> I wrote something for packing X messages via a TCP socket. You could >> define the message in a vector and it would pack and unpack the item. >> It was X centric, and you could encode sizes for X's dynamic length >> fields. > >I looked at your code, and I can see we are touching on similar >grounds here, but there are quite fundamental differences in each >approach, so I guess both packages will have their uses (and users). > >Notably, my package separates format and data in a pretty generic way, >while your package tends to mix data and format which is less generic, >but probably somewhat easier to use for some purposes. > >Also, your package has much more versatile ways of recognizing / >guessing the actual format of some data -- but I think that part is >pretty X-centric in its current form. > >I'll probably have to look into this aspect for my package to be >more complete (I have some ideas about how to add `union' support). It has been quite some time since I wrote or even looked in that package. I wanted to draw nifty pictures from Emacs Lisp but it was way more work just getting the graphics up, never mind writing an app. ;) My other Emacs/TCP/UDP app is gtalk (gnutalk.sourceforge.net) but that used an external C package. No one seems to use that protocol these days though. :( Have fun Eric -- Eric Ludlam: zappo@gnu.org, eric@siege-engine.com Home: www.ultranet.com/~zappo Siege: www.siege-engine.com Emacs: http://cedet.sourceforge.net GNU: www.gnu.org _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel