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| <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> |
| <pkgmetadata> |
| <maintainer type="project"> |
| <email>games@gentoo.org</email> |
| <name>Gentoo Games Project</name> |
| </maintainer> |
| <longdescription> |
| HawkNL is a free, open source, game oriented network API released under |
| the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL). HawkNL (NL) is a fairly |
| low level API, a wrapper over Berkeley/Unix Sockets and Winsock. But NL |
| also provides other features including support for many OSs, groups of |
| sockets, socket statistics, high accuracy timer, CRC functions, macros |
| to read and write data to packets with endian conversion, and support |
| for multiple network transports. NL has been tested on Windows |
| 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/CE, Linux, Solaris, IRIX, AIX, BSDs, MacOS 7-9 and |
| MacOS X. There are also the two high level APIs, HawkNLU(tm) (NLU) |
| and HawkVoice(tm), which are built on top of NL. It is NLU and |
| HawkVoice(tm) that are most exciting, since they give developers |
| portable, easy to use alternatives to Microsoft®'s DirectPlay® and |
| DirectPlay® Voice. |
| </longdescription> |
| </pkgmetadata> |