Help to understand what the library actually does

[mdbergmann]

Hi.

Looking though the functionality of the library it seems that there is a lot of high-level functionality, like DNS, HTTP server and client, etc.
Shouldn't the library just provide facilities to do async I/O so that any HTTP server, client or other libraries can be used on top of what cl-async provides?

I don't want to be disrespectful. But this additional functionality could be a burden to maintain.

[Plisp]

The http support has actually been deprecated (the tests are still here, but not loaded).
This library is mostly an interface to libuv (which has some DNS utilities as you mentioned, for nodejs) with lisp abstractions over error handling, libuv's handles and C callbacks.

[mdbergmann]

OK, thanks.

(the tests are still here, but not loaded)

Why not delete them? It would be still in the git history.

[Plisp]

It should be fine to remove them. Probably to do with the maintainer no longer actively working on the project :(