Re: Suggestions for communincations API?

[Ralph Hempel <rhempel@...>]

Sam Roberts wrote:
> Two suggestions.

<snip>

> Your users already have to deal with an event-driven system, you don't
> have to hide it from them.
>
> Also, for things like SNMP and DNS lookups, there are lots of
> asynchronous and high-quality C libs to to that kind of thing, you'll
> probably find it easier to integrate C libs and provide nice
> high-level APIs that are event-driven, with idioms common to the set
> of capabilities you offer your control engineers.

Agreed. One of the nice things about Lua is that integration with
existing libraries is really easy to do. Just write a wrapper
around a call into the library and add it to a table using the
library mechanism...

Ralph