-*- outline -*- * New in AdaSockets 1.8.4.7 Packaging glitch is now fixed, thanks to Dani for reporting it. * New in AdaSockets 1.8.4.6 Fix documentation, thanks to . Do not require a C++ compiler to be present because it is of no use. Request from Dmitriy Anisimkov . * New in AdaSockets 1.8.4.5 The Sockets.Naming.Value function now checks that a correct dotted IP address is given. Add a new example "value" to test the Sockets.Naming.Value function. * New in AdaSockets 1.8.4.4 Fix bug an offset-by-one error in Sockets.Receive_Some. Bug found and fix sent by Dmitriy Anisimkov . Fix typo in documentation, thanks to Vladimir . * New in AdaSockets 1.8.4.3 Fix bug in Sockets.Receive in presence of connection errors. Bug found and fix sent by Dmitriy Anisimkov . * New in AdaSockets 1.8.4.2 In-source-tree build for AdaSockets was broken, this is now fixed. * New in AdaSockets 1.8.4.1 AdaSockets now has two build options: --disable-doc and --disable-examples. * New in AdaSockets 1.8.4 This version only fix some builds problems when gnatmake cannot be found. * New in AdaSockets 1.8.3 Fix several bugs and glitches with older versions of GNAT. * New in AdaSockets 1.8.2 To remove the risk of using two different versions of GNAT, gnatmake is now used as the only driver to compile Ada code. * New in AdaSockets 1.8.1 The change in AdaSockets 1.8 broke compilation with versions of GNAT older than 5.01. This version restores it for every GNAT version. Bug found by Duncan Sands . * New in AdaSockets 1.8 A change in the `gnatkr' program for GNAT 5.01 required a change in AdaSockets. Patch sent by Dmitriy Anisimkov . * New in AdaSockets 1.7 A bug in multicast sockets handling has been fixed (which could cause incompatibities on heterogeneous architectures). Bug found and fix sent by Guillaume Foliard . A new Create_Multicast_Socket function allows you to choose the local port to use. * New in AdaSockets 1.6 A new procedure Get_Line looks like Ada.Text_IO equivalent. The Get_Line function also now takes a default argument. * New in AdaSockets 1.5.1 Interface change: some types have been moved in Sockets.Types, a new package. Also, the sa_len and sin_len fields have been introduced respectively in Sockaddr and Sockaddr_In types when applicable. Autoconf file has been renamed from configure.in to configure.ac to use newest autoconf file naming conventions. * New in AdaSockets 1.5 AdaSockets don't check the version string of GNAT anymore as it works with any decently recent version. Also, remove two useless copies in some of the Receive_ routines which could penalize large transfers. * New in AdaSockets 1.4.1 Work with GNAT 3.15p (the version string has yet another format). Thanks to Jean-Pierre Rosen for signalling this problem. * New in AdaSockets 1.4 AdaSockets now supports GNAT 3.2 from the GCC tree and Windows XP. Windows patch sent by Jeffrey Creem . * New in AdaSockets 1.3 AdaSockets now supports OpenVMS. Support added by Dominik Madon . * New in AdaSockets 1.2 ** New Connect behaviour in case of failure Connect can now raise Socket_Error (where previously Connection_Refused was used) if another error happens (such as "no route to host"). Change suggested and patch sent by Dmitriy Anisimkov . ** Addendum in documentation It has been explicitely noted that string-oriented communication with datagrams requires the user to set a buffer on the receiving socket. * New in AdaSockets 1.1 ** New documentation AdaSockets now comes with a small documentation. See it online on http://www.rfc1149.net/devel/adasockets or in the doc directory of the distribution. ** New constants A whole set of new constants have been made available. See the documentation. Thanks to Sune Falck . ** Cleanup The constant PF_INET should be used instead of AF_INET when creating sockets. The old option (which is not correct even if they hold the same value) should be changed in your source code into the new one. ** Bug fix The examples/multi program can now be run several times on the same machine. Thanks to Sune Falck . * New in AdaSockets 1.0 ** New exception The exception Socket_Error will be raised instead of Constraint_Error. Thanks to Dmitriy Anisimkov . ** Major version change I was tired of the 0.1.x serie, as AdaSockets is now mature enough for being used in large applications. * New in AdaSockets 0.1.20 ** New contrib directory The new contrib directory includes scripts to make win32 installation easier, thanks to Dmitriy Anisimkov . ** New high-level function Getsockopt is now available. Patch sent by Dmitriy Anisimkov . ** New thin function and constants The ioctl() function and two constants, FIONBIO and FIONREAD, have been added to the thin binding. close() is now bound as a function instead of a procedure, since specific code may need to check the result. Also, a new Sockets.Thin.Errno function gives an error code that is portable between Unix and win32. Thanks to Dmitriy Anisimkov . * New in AdaSockets 0.1.19 ** New features for Windows Maxim Reznik did adapt AdaSockets so that it offers all the functions needed for AdaBroker on Windows. This way, he could use AdaBroker on this new platform. ** Minor enhancement When a socket is closed, its buffer space is reclaimed if the socket was still in buffered mode. Suggestion and patch sent by Dmitriy Anisimkov . ** Example fix The multicast example (which now works on Windows) has been fixed to do what it says. Fix sent by Juanma Barranquero . * New in AdaSockets 0.1.18 ** New subprograms Set_Buffer and Unset_Buffer Two new subprograms, Set_Buffer and Unset_Buffer, allow to read sockets in buffered mode. This is particularily important for UDP sockets. Feature suggested by Juanma Barranquero . The listener example has been modified to use buffered mode. * New in AdaSockets 0.1.17 ** Bug fix A bug prevented UDP sockets to be able to receive data, at least on Windows. Reported and fixed by Juanma Barranquero . * New in AdaSockets 0.1.16 ** New port Thanks to Dmitriy Anisimkov , AdaSockets now builds correctly on a Windows MINGW system. You need a set of Unix tools to build it; it has been tested with the Cygwin toolset. * New in AdaSockets 0.1.15 ** Bug fix Send could sometimes incorrectly raise Constraint_Error instead of the more logical Connection_Closed. Reported and fixed by Pascal Obry . * New in AdaSockets 0.1.14 ** Bug fix Get_Sock_Port and Get_Peer_Port did not return the right result on little endian machines. Reported and fixed by Stéphane Patureau . * New in AdaSockets 0.1.13 ** New functions Get_Sock_Addr and Get_Sock_Port This time, the new functions, that work locally, have been suggested by Alan Barnes . ** Bind enhancement Alan Barnes also proposed a Bind enhancement to accept 0 as a valid port. In this case, a free one will be allocated by the system. Also, it is now possible to specify the bind address. * New in AdaSockets 0.1.12 ** New functions Get_Peer_Addr and Get_Peer_Port Two new functions allow a user to know the address and port used by the peer. Based on a suggestion from Sander Cox . ** Bug fix The split program had a forgotten incrementation, which made it fail on some machines with long qualified names. Fix sent by Thomas Quinot . * New in AdaSockets 0.1.11 ** New constants defined David J. Kristola asked for two new constants to be defined, O_NONBLOCK and MSG_PEEK. These will be used for a new extension (non-blocking sockets) that he plans to release in the near future. * New in AdaSockets 0.1.10 ** New package Sockets.Stream_IO A new package Sockets.Stream_IO allows the user to build a stream from an existing socket. The stream can then be used as any other Ada stream. Two new examples, stream_listener and stream_sender are provided to demonstrate this feature. ** New procedure Receive_Some. A new Receive_Some procedure, suggested by Laurent Guerby, allows the user to get the first data available instead of waiting for the buffer to be filled. ** Allow adasockets-config to be called with no parameter. This has been suggested by Preben Randhol, and simplifies the gnatmake command line whenever someone uses no library but adasockets. * New in AdaSockets 0.1.9 ** Add a new function Get_FD. A new function Get_FD has been added in the Sockets package to let GtkAda users add this descriptor to the list of descriptors to watch. Patch sent by Bobby D. Bryant . * New in AdaSockets 0.1.8 ** Change the building process AdaSockets now comes as a shared and a non-shared library. ** Fix bugs on 64 bit platforms The iovec_len field in sockets-thin.ads was incorrectly marked as being an Integer instead of a Storage_Offset. * New in AdaSockets 0.1.7 ** Add support for FreeBSD FreeBSD 3.x, 4.0 and 5.0-CURRENT are now supported out of the box. * New in AdaSockets 0.1.6 ** Add a `adasockets-config' script The AdaSockets library can now be found automatically on your system if it has been installed properly. * New in AdaSockets 0.1.5 ** Fix a race condition when using naming services gethostbyname() and friends functions are not thread safe because they return a pointer on a static memory zone. Incriminated calls are now protected by a mutex. The overhead should be neglictible as those functions aren't usually called often. * New in AdaSockets 0.1.4 ** Fix a descriptor leak when using TCP sockets close() was not called properly after a socket has been shutdowned in both directions. Since we do not want to add the burden of calling close() onto the user, we record the state for each direction and call close() when appropriate. ** Fix an installation bug In some situations (unexistant lib subdirectory in target prefix directory), the installation directory was not properly created. This is now fixed. ** Add some thin bindings entries Thin bindigs entries have been added for socketpair() and AF_UNIX. * New in AdaSockets 0.1.3 ** Support for IP multicast The package Sockets.Multicast can be used to create Multicast interfaces on machine that support it. ** Interface changes Some functions have been transformed into procedures to ease the addition of multicast sockets. ** New example The multi example can be used as both a multicast sender and receiver. * New in AdaSockets 0.1.2 ** Warning suppressed Some versions of GNAT were detecting incorrectly a missing raise in some cases. Signaled by Nicolas Ollinger . ** New example A listener example which is only a server has been added to avoid any confusion between clients and servers. Suggestion by Scott Moody . * New in AdaSockets 0.1.1 ** `aux' -> `support' The subdirectory `aux' in the distribution has been renamed into `support' to avoid a name clash on Windows NT with the standard peripherical `aux'. Suggestion from Juanma Barranquero . ** Better error messages Exception raised during the connection now have messages in many cases explaining why the connexion could not be made.