[Ns-developers] Synchronous socket API status?

[Mathieu Lacage]

On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 17:14 -0300, Jorge wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am very interested in this work (synchronous berkeley socket API):
> 
> http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2008-April/003912.html
> 
> What is it's status? Are there any plans for this functionality? I've
> seen that the mathieu/ns-3-simu branch is 7 months old. 

I have re-started work on that branch last week in a private repository.
I can't promise any special day when it will be ready for wider
consumption but I am working on it.

> Also, if i wanted to hack on this code, i would have to merge this code
> on ns-3-dev, right? I'm new to ns3 (and mercurial), so i have no idea
> how much 7 months of history is...
> 
> My interest is in running real applications in the simulator. More
> completelly, i'm thinking on integrating a Lua virtual machine, and
> gluing the LuaSocket library to the ns3 sockets. (this is probably
> meaningles to you all :) The result would be a platform for quickly
> prototyping services that can be simulated or deployed with no changes.

That would certainly be cool.

Mathieu