Hello list,

I'm considering switching from trivial-sockets to usocket, seeing that the former is completely unmaintained. But, while the open-stream function does accept :external-format and :element-type arguments, it just raises an 'unsupported' condition when they are passed. It would be rather trivial to support these parameters in SBCL, but that would mean changing the open-stream function itself, either make it throw those errors depending on the platform (ugly), or move the error throwing into the platform-specific functions. I guess the latter is preferrable, and I'm willing to write the patch for that, but I'd like to hear if you people agree with this.

I've been using flexi streams in cl-irc to provide cross platform consistent :external-format for the library. Would it be an idea to do the same with usocket?

I know it doesn't work well with Allegro Common Lisp, but if we provide the patch, the author will probably fix flexi streams...

bye,

Erik.