hello, I have written a library for fastcgi. At the moment it only works with sbcl (and propably ecl). Because I'm using the sbcl socket-api.
Now I want to port the library to a portable socket-api. I found usocket library on cliki.net. It seems to be really nice especially after trivial-socket isn't maintained anymore. But the last changes to the svn where made about 3 month ago and there is only one release in a very early stage.
So my question is: Is usocket maintained and developed at the moment or is the project dead? Would it be save for me to use usocket in my library?
Yes it is safe for you to use usocket. While my development is not the most constantly over time - I've been contributing to cl-irc, abcl, usocket, alexis (http://hix.nu/svn-public/alexis/), Subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/) and others - I'm almost always here to commit fixes if you have any, or even better: to discuss how to proceed development. (Contributions very welcome!)
The only problem with my goals is that it's a lot of work to find the comonalities and make a usable interface from that. It's not impossible, not even hard, just a lot of work.
Hope that answers your questions?
bye,
Erik.