Hello All!

i think amiga people would like to join binkp protocol, if there is users knowing arexx well to code it there, after all its keeped opensource, and more users can help make it more stable if first version is not working, posting here to let programmers and users intention wake


Regards Benny

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On 2018-06-24 11:03, Benny Pedersen : All wrote:

Hello All!

i think amiga people would like to join binkp protocol, if there is
users knowing arexx well to code it there, after all its keeped
opensource, and more users can help make it more stable if first version
is not working, posting here to let programmers and users intention wake

I think that it would be "easier" to make a complete rewrite if anyone
was to make a binkd implementation in Arexx, even if the original C
source is available and open.

But Arexx does not seem like a very good fit for network code?

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On 2018-06-24 11:03, Benny Pedersen : All wrote: >> Hello All!

i think amiga people would like to join binkp protocol, if there is >> users

knowing arexx well to code it there, after all its keeped >> opensource, and more users can help make it more stable if first version >> is not working, posting here to let programmers and users intention wake

I think that it would be "easier" to make a complete rewrite if
anyone
was to make a binkd implementation in Arexx, even if the original C
source is available and open.

But Arexx does not seem like a good fit for network code?

Performance wise Arexx is probably not the best idea either. But what the hell
- I welcome any effort in this direction. I'm gonna continue to try to get Trapdoor to work properly so I can make my BBS a 100% Amiga project. :)


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Hello Janne!

25 Jun 2018 21:13, Janne Johansson wrote to Benny Pedersen:

I think that it would be "easier" to make a complete rewrite if anyone
was to make a binkd implementation in Arexx, even if the original C
source is available and open.

that ends in precompiled problems just like all other good software on any platform

But Arexx does not seem like a very good fit for network code?

my point with arexx is that there is no compiling needed


Regards Benny

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Hello Joacim!

25 Jun 2018 21:17, Joacim Melin wrote to Janne Johansson:

Performance wise Arexx is probably not the best idea either. But what the hell - I welcome any effort in this direction. I'm gonna continue
to try to get Trapdoor to work properly so I can make my BBS a 100%
Amiga project. :)

and trapdoor support arexx, does that make your modem slower ? :)


Regards Benny

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On 2018-06-27 05:00, Benny Pedersen : Janne Johansson wrote:

Hello Janne!

25 Jun 2018 21:13, Janne Johansson wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 JJ> I think that it would be "easier" to make a complete rewrite if anyone  JJ> was to make a binkd implementation in Arexx, even if the original C  JJ> source is available and open.

that ends in precompiled problems just like all other good software on
any platform

That response seems to be based on a misunderstanding of what I said. I
said that just because binkd is open source C might not make it simple
to lift that code to Arexx, so anyone that would implement binkd in
Arexx would be better off making a complete reimplementation from the
specs than to look at code from the wrong language.

 JJ> But Arexx does not seem like a very good fit for network code?

my point with arexx is that there is no compiling needed

I meant more general terms as opening network sockets, waiting for I/O
on more than one place at the same time and so forth, which is "easy"
with unixy systems (ixemul.library probably included), but might be lots
harder on high-level script languages.

High level languages tend to make the easy things simpler, and the hard
things more complex, or even impossible. Don't know exactly where binkd
ends up along that scale but I guess writing robust network code is at
the hard end.

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