Re: [mildly OT] Some info about Python

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Dibyendu Majumdar once stated:
> On Sun, 19 Jan 2020 at 01:37, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> >   I generally write my own library code.  lposix (or is it luaposix?  I
> > forget which one is the current standard) was just too large for my tastes,
> > with functionality overlapping that of luasocket.  luasocket doesn't have a
> > good design (in my opinion).  luafilesystem is too heavy to use (because of
> > portability issues) and the list goes on.  My approach was to have well
> > targetted libraries that work well together (and prevent unneccessary
> > overlap), and I have:
> >
> >         org.conman.fsys         - file system related calls
> >         org.conman.clock        - get time, set time, sleep
> >         org.conman.process      - process creation
> >         org.conman.signal       - signal related functions
> >         org.conman.net          - sockets and network addresses
> >         org.conman.tls          - TLS wrapper based on LibreSSL
> >         org.conman.net.tcp      - create file system like IO over TCP
> >         org.conman.net.tls      - create file system like IO over TLS
> >         org.conman.nfl          - network event driver framework
> >         org.conman.nfl.tcp      - handle TCP connections per coroutine
> >         org.conman.nfl.tls      - handle TLS connections per coroutine
> >         org.conman.pollset      - select()/poll()/kqueue()/epoll()
> >         org.conman.syslog       - wrapper for syslog
> >         org.conman.errno        - list of system error values
> >         org.conman.env          - load environment vars into table
> >
> >   Theer are more, but I think you get the idea.  It took several years go
> > get this all written and designed, and I'm still mucking with them to this
> > day.
> 
> Nice. But I guess these are Linux only?

  Posix.  I use these under Linux, Mac OS-X and Solaris.  I don't use (or
have) a Windows system to test any of these on.

  -spc