Any value in a APR or NSPR port?

Post by **Oobles** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:21 pm

Just curious of what people think of porting either the Apache Portable Runtime library or Netscape Portable Runtime. Both of these projects seem to have a nice set of features.

The latest APR includes Atomic operations, Dynamic Shared Object Loading, File I/O, Locks, Memory management, Memory-maped files, multicast sockets, network i/o, shared memory, thread and process management, data structures(tables, hashes, priority queues,etc).

Apache Portable Runtime
http://apr.apache.org/

Netscape Portable Runtime
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/

Anyone had any experience with either of these? It could be that they won't add any value at this level?

David. aka Oobles.

groepaz · Post by **groepaz** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:06 pm

what interisting projects are there that use those libs?

Post by **Oobles** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:28 pm

It wasn't so much if current projects use them, but if future projects might find them useful. I've got no interest in porting Firefox or Apache, however, parts of those projects could be useful. I've got a few ideas for some networking based apps I'd like to do. Developing them in a portable way would be a plus.

holger · Post by **holger** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:16 am

what's the point of wrapping POSIX?

jsgf · Post by **jsgf** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:31 am

Seems like overkill to me. If we can wrap the networking in a fairly standard sockety library and wrap threading in pthreads, then we're most of the way there.

mmap, shared memory, etc are clearly not applicable to this platform, so there's no benefit there.