[Openmcl-devel] cl-http on clozure-cl

[Rainer Joswig]

Am 05.04.2009 um 06:01 schrieb Gary Byers:

> As far as I know, no one's done a port.
>
> I'd have to think (perhaps naively) that doing a port involves writing
> some platform-specific code (for things like networking/threads/ 
> pathnames)
> that adheres to some public interface, and that there isn't likely  
> to be
> a whole lot of that code.

There is some code. From character handling, thread handling, using  
platform specific error conditions, some access to Unix facilities,  
ssl interface, getting into the platform specific streams efficiently,  
setting up packages, ...

> Anytime that I've ever looked at cl-http, I've been unable to  
> determine
> how its code is organized, where that platform-specific code should  
> go,
> and what those public interfaces are.

CL-HTTP never had the low levels really nicely organized in a portable  
way. Port specific files are in a directory for that port. Some ports  
started by just copying such a directory (the MCL directory) and  
changing things for the platform. There is code duplication and it  
makes maintenance harder. But it has also helped to experiment with  
different port implementations.

The higher-level parts of CL-HTTP are using the 'low-level' package  
WWW-UTILS. So the package definition is a good overview, what needs to  
be implemented. CLIM-SYS was in some ports used for threads, etc.

> I -think- that I once heard that someone (maybe Karsten Poeck ?) had
> written something - either a porting guide or a skeletal portability
> layer or both - for CL-HTTP, but I don't remember where I saw that and
> couldn't find it the last time that I looked.

Some time ago Karsten Poeck wrote a new low-level substrate that  
should make porting easier. It would need some hacking to make it  
support CCL, AFAIK. I'm also not sure how much of CL-HTTP it (the new  
port substrate) supports and how efficiently (say, for a multi-core  
capable Lisp). To find out more it is best to get in contact with  
Karsten directly. If there are improvements in that area, I'm willing  
to patch them into the CL-HTTP sources. Karsten has access, too.

Regards,

Rainer Joswig


>
> On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, james anderson wrote:
>
>>
>> is there a clozure-cl port of cl-http?
>>
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