tcp.el is obsolete

tcp.el is obsolete

[Dave Love]

I guess this file should just be removed.  I'm not sure why I missed
it in a previous purge.

Re: tcp.el is obsolete

[Richard Stallman]

    I guess this file should just be removed.

Can anyone confirm that the built-in open-network-stream is supported
on all platforms now?  If that is so, tcp.el and lib-src/tcp.c can
indeed be deleted.

Re: tcp.el is obsolete

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     I guess this file should just be removed.
> 
> Can anyone confirm that the built-in open-network-stream is supported
> on all platforms now?  If that is so, tcp.el and lib-src/tcp.c can
> indeed be deleted.

make-network-process is still conditioned by HAVE_SOCKETS, so
there may still be systems where it is not available.

But since lib-src/tcp.c itself depends on sockets, I don't see why
make-network-process cannot be made available on those systems.

-- 
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk

Re: tcp.el is obsolete

[Dave Love]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> Can anyone confirm that the built-in open-network-stream is
> supported on all platforms now?

It isn't on Mac, but that doesn't have asynchronous processes for the
code to use.  (I'd somehow missed tcp.c in the distribution, so I
thought it couldn't be in use anyway.)  If it really is useful, please
let me know, so I can reinstate the support it had in the url library.

Re: tcp.el is obsolete

[Richard Stallman]

    > Can anyone confirm that the built-in open-network-stream is
    > supported on all platforms now?

    It isn't on Mac, but that doesn't have asynchronous processes for the
    code to use.

You could be saying that tcp.el is useless on the Mac, but I am not
sure.  Could you clarify the statement?  Can anyone tell us for certain
whether tcp.el is of use on the Mac?

Re: tcp.el is obsolete

[Andrew Choi]

>     > Can anyone confirm that the built-in open-network-stream is
>     > supported on all platforms now?
> 
>     It isn't on Mac, but that doesn't have asynchronous processes
>     for the code to use.
> 
> You could be saying that tcp.el is useless on the Mac, but I am not
> sure.  Could you clarify the statement?  Can anyone tell us for
> certain whether tcp.el is of use on the Mac?

Mac OS X has built-in open-network-stream support.  So tcp.el is not
used there.

Mac OS 8 or 9 has neither built-in open-network-stream nor
start-process support.  So the definition of open-network-stream in
tcp.el *cannot* be use there.

Re: tcp.el is obsolete

[Dave Love]

Andrew Choi <akochoi@shaw.ca> writes:

> Mac OS 8 or 9 has neither built-in open-network-stream nor
> start-process support.  So the definition of open-network-stream in
> tcp.el *cannot* be use there.

That's what I meant.