[GRASS5] sockets -> default!

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 05:23:05PM +0700, Justin Hickey wrote:
> Hi Bernhard
> 
> Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > >  - keep fifo (maybe, but I cannot see much reasons)
> > 
> > Because this is the old method which is known to work on obscure
> > platforms we cannot test right now.
> 
> I don't know. It just seems to me that since we have positive results
> from Cygwin, Mac, Linux, Solaris, IRIX, CRAY, FreeBsd, (others??) it
> indicates that our socket code is fairly portable. I also find it hard
> to believe that there is a UNIX system around that does not support the
> sockets standard. They have been around for more than a decade. Do you
> have any particular platform in mind? I'd just like to have clean code
> rather than keeping something that may not be used or that is not
> necessary.
> 
> Anyway, I guess it's up to Markus.

I don't have a 20 years experience, but I am rather sure that people
try to use modern systems. So I agree with Justin: a cleanup is less
error prone than keeping historical code (even CVS keeps it for us).

If we should keep the fifos, we need the platform named which doesn't 
support sockets.

Markus

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