Brook framework
lazarus / 38-Networking and Web Programming

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gerardus · 2023-05-08 19:02

Hi all,
There are two Brook Framework packages in the Online Package Manager
and two repositories in GitHub, aparently from the same
author/maintainer.
https://github.com/risoflora/brookfreepascal
https://github.com/risoflora/brookframework/
What are the differences between the two?
Regards,
Gerard.

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TRon · 2023-05-08 19:09

According to the wiki https://wiki.freepascal.org/Brook_Framework#Comp
arison_with_Brook_for_Free_Pascal
QuoteBrook for Free Pascal is an earlier web application library by
the same developer.
...

and the other way around https://wiki.freepascal.org/Brook_for_Free_Pa
scal#Comparison_with_Brook_Framework
QuoteBrook Framework is another web application library by the same
developer. The main difference between Brook for Free Pascal and Brook
Framework is that Brook for Free Pascal is pure Pascal and relies on
the HTTP functionality provided by fcl-web, covering CGI, FastCGI and
standalone, whereas Brook Framework uses libsagui, a C library, for
its underlying HTTP/S functionality.

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gerardus · 2023-05-08 19:15

Thanks a lot.

I see two more packages in the Lazarus package list:

brookdt 1.0 and brookex 2.0 wich apparently are from
https://github.com/silvioprog/brookframework

Where it says

"The project Brook framework was moved to: risoflora/brookframework.
If you want Brook only for Free Pascal, it was moved to:
risoflora/brookfreepascal."

So these two are the same as

ttps://github.com/risoflora/brookframework

And there is another package: BrookTardigrade 5.6

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Leledumbo · 2023-05-09 10:01

Quote from: gerardus on May 08, 2023, 09:15:25 pmThanks a lot.

I see two more packages in the Lazarus package list:

brookdt 1.0 and brookex 2.0 wich apparently are from
https://github.com/silvioprog/brookframework

Where it says

"The project Brook framework was moved to: risoflora/brookframework.
If you want Brook only for Free Pascal, it was moved to:
risoflora/brookfreepascal."

So these two are the same as

ttps://github.com/risoflora/brookframework

And there is another package: BrookTardigrade 5.6
Yes. Silvio started this as a personal project, he then moved it to
say, an organization (risoflora) consisting of multiple people
instead. The repo is still in github.
BrookTardigrade is his attempt to help migrating the older Brook
Freepascal project to use the newer higher performance HTTP server
instead of relying on 3rd party web server like Apache or Nginx, as
the common practice. It's just another Brook broker, a core concept of
Brook. Basically broker = implementation of an interface. There are
brokers for HTTP server, event logging, static files, etc. and they're
interchangeable for the same interface as well as pluggable for
different one.

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gerardus · 2023-05-09 16:27

Thanks, I think I get it now.