[Help Wanted] OpenNetwork

[Halan]

Hi,

as some people from the IRC may know already I've been working on a network engine for some time now.
When writing it i wanted it to be used similiar to irrlicht. Because of that it is based on an INetworkPort-Interface and released under zlib. Therefore it also has a public SVN on google-code.
I am looking for people supporting and helping me with it. It already contains a working TCP-Implementation but UDP is lacking reliable support kind of. Also I don't know if it properly runs on windows systems as i don't use it.
I would be also happy to hear critisim about its design (though i find it pretty clean).

Just check it out!

greets,
Halan

[rogerborg]

UDP is lacking reliable support kind of.

I'd expect it to either be reliable, or not reliable. There's not a lot of middle ground there.

Out of interest, what pragmatic benefits does "Open Network" offer or intend to offer that the (zlib licensed) IrrNet or Enet don't already provide?

Its completely interface-based, what means that you can replace everything with own implementations

If I could do that, why would I need or want to use your library?

These are invitations for you to sell Open Network to us, I should add.

[Halan]

Well just because of that Interface design and its similarities to irrlicht you could like it.
Enet is rather C style in my opinion and better used to build another layer like IrrNet on top off it. IrrNet of course was to specific for me as i didn't want it only to work with irrlicht.

Writing your own implemenetations? Well maybe you want to write a port using some custom protocol but keeping openNetworks interface? Or maybe you want to compare how your app performs better, with upd or tcp?

thanks for answering,
Halan