Author: ehuelsmann Date: Tue Jun 5 17:20:43 2007 New Revision: 265
Modified: public_html/feature-comparison.shtml public_html/implementation-comparison.shtml public_html/index.shtml Log: Update webpages.
Modified: public_html/feature-comparison.shtml ============================================================================== --- public_html/feature-comparison.shtml (original) +++ public_html/feature-comparison.shtml Tue Jun 5 17:20:43 2007 @@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ The latter implements different feature-sets for different backends while the former supplies consistent functionality for all backends.</p>
-<table style="border:3px solid black"> +<div style="border:3px solid black;padding: 2px; margin: 0px"> +<table style="border:1px solid black;" border=1 cellspacing=1> <tr><th colspan="2">Feature</th> <th colspan="8">In trivial-sockets?</th><th rowspan="2">In usocket?</th></tr> <tr><th colspan="2"></th><th title="ArmedBear">ABCL</th> @@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ <th>LispWorks</th> <th>OpenMCL</th> <th>SBCL</th> - <th>(all)</th> + <th>overall</th> </tr> <tr><th rowspan="3">Client side tcp streams</th><th>:element-type</th> <td>Yes</td> <!-- ABCL --> @@ -67,7 +68,7 @@
<tr><th rowspan="5">Server socket creation</th> <th>Binding specific local port</th> - <td colspan="8">Yes</td> + <td colspan="9">Yes</td>
</tr> <tr><th>Binding specific local interface</th> @@ -105,7 +106,7 @@ <td>Yes*</td>
<tr><th>:element-type for created connections</th> - <td colspan="7">No</td> + <td colspan="8">No</td> <td>Yes</td>
<tr><th rowspan="5">Accepting connections</th> @@ -133,11 +134,20 @@
</tr> </table> +</div>
<p>In summary: there are only a very limited number of features you can depend on to work on all platforms supported by trivial-sockets. While usocket doesn't support all features, you can depend on the features to be available. </p>
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Modified: public_html/implementation-comparison.shtml ============================================================================== --- public_html/implementation-comparison.shtml (original) +++ public_html/implementation-comparison.shtml Tue Jun 5 17:20:43 2007 @@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ </tr> <tr><th>Corman</th><td>no</td><td>yes</td><td>no</td><td>no (to come)</td><td>no</td><td>no</td> </tr> +<tr style="background-color:#efe"><th>Total #</th><td>8</td><td>7(+1)</td><td>4</td><td>9</td><td>6</td><td>3</td> +</tr> </tbody>
Modified: public_html/index.shtml ============================================================================== --- public_html/index.shtml (original) +++ public_html/index.shtml Tue Jun 5 17:20:43 2007 @@ -40,9 +40,23 @@ <p>If your lisp isn't mentioned in the list below, please feel free to submit a request for it at the mailing list mentioned below.</p>
-<p>See the <a href="feature-comparison.shtml">feature comparison</a> with +<h3>Comparison to other socket libraries</h3> + +<p>Since usocket is effectively the succesor to trivial-sockets, see the + <a href="feature-comparison.shtml">feature comparison</a> with trivial-sockets in order to find out which one you should use.</p>
+<p>After starting the project, many others turned out to have worked on + something alike, many times as part of a broader project or library. + Some of them were known at the start of this project, others have + been conceived after the usocket project already started. Not all of + them have exactly the same portability goal.</p> + +<p>See the <a href="implementation-comparison.shtml">Implementation + comparison</a> page for a comparison of the portability of other + libaries and how that relates to usocket.</p> + + <h2><a name="documentation">Documentation</a></h2>
<p>See the documentation page for the <a href="./api-docs.shtml">API description</a>.</p> @@ -63,11 +77,6 @@ <li>Scieneer</li> </ul>
-<p>To see how this list relates to the supported implementations in other -socket libraries, see the -<a href="implementation-comparison.shtml">Implementation comparison</a> -page.</p> - <h2><a name="community">Community</a></h2>
<p>This project has started Januari 2006. There isn't much of a community