The source is licensed fully under GPL.
See LICENSE for details.

To build:

copy build_config.py.dist to build_config.py and edit the file
to have correct paths etc. for your system.

Release build:
just run scons
Debug build:
run scons debug=yes

Building the examples:
scons example

Building the unit tests:
scons test

For building scons is needed:
http://www.scons.org/
Stand-alone Windows build available also:
https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2672

ACE networking library is used to provide cross-platform
support. You need it to use this library:
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html

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Some information:

this library currently implements a simple resending
UDP protocol. The resending is achieved by a simple
ACK protocol: if ACK is not received during the timeout
interval, the packet is resend again until resend
threshold is reached (defaults: timeout 2 secs,
send tries 3) with timeouts and resend. It follows pretty 
much the same interface as UDP sockets.
It's good to know the following details:

- the library sends acks only when send() method is
  called. If you have no payload to send after receive
  you can also just call send with NULL payload and 0
  length to cause ReUDP library to send whatever it
  needs to send.
- if the socket is set to non-blocking mode and the
  payload could not be sent because would block, 
  the library will store the payload in a queue of buffers
  and will try sending it automatically when send()
  is called again. The send() method then returns success
  to the caller.
- use needs_to_send() and needs_to_send_when() methods to
  determine if the library has to do sending and when
  (absolute time).
  
Arto Jalkanen
ajalkane@gmail.com