May 9, 2010
Qt4 here we come!
Finally after a lot of problems and roadblocks the Qt4 Lazarus interface (and lNet part too although that was minor change) is complete. After I found out that the Qt4Pas project added QSocketNotifier support I knew the time has come. The Qt4 socket event watching mechanism is an odd beast, and in my opinion not very well designed (at least for external non-C++ OOP sockets) but the good news is it was doable and Gtk compatible as well! This means that the only real change in lNet was adding the same include file for Qt4 as I use for Gtk (and Gtk2) widgetsets.
Other noteworthy additions in the 0.6.4 release are major fixes:
- Fix compilation of WinCE lNet on fpc 2.4.0+
- Fix FTP visual example (missing file in svn)
- Fix http URL parser (no more trailing / problems)
- Fix FTP bug when retreived file was unavailable from server (hanging socket syndrome)
All in all a nice release. The only thing really missing now is a fully functioning (which means on windows too) IPv6 and Carbon/Cocoa integration in Lazarus.
August 12, 2007
Blog start
I have just been inspired by Vincent’s blog to start a blog of mine own so here it is.
lNet is progressing nicely. Version 0.5.8 will hopefully be out soon and I hope it will be the last of the 0.5.x line. There are some plans for simplifying of the sending in TCP sockets which will slightly change semantics and warrant a 0.6 release.
If everything goes ok the next major release will also contain OpenSSL support and possibly also some additional protocol implementation.
lNet - Lightweight networking library 
