Hi!
Somewhere in the TODO, there's mention of abstracting/extracting implementation dependent sockets code into it's own (simple) library.
I believe that library has been available for a while now and would like to switch cl-irc to using that: trivial-sockets.
Responding to Brian's question in #lisp ("How does that eliminate platformspecific stuff like (start-background-message-handler)?"):
It doesn't. That's why I'm saying 'reduce' rather than 'eliminate'. But using trivial-sockets would eliminate the - currently doubly maintained [in cl-irc and trivial-sockets] - knowledge how implementations make sockets available (this list is in socket-connect and friends).
I thought un-doubling them might be a good idea. We'd profit from any other implementations becoming available in trivial-sockets...
bye,
Erik.