On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:34:15 +0200, Scott McMurray wrote:

On 17/07/07, sccr13plyr wrote:

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I am new to Boost. I was looking for socket classes that are a component of Boost. Somehow, I couldn't find any. Are there "boost sockets"?

ASIO has been accepted into Boost, but has not yet made it into the official distribution. Until 1.35, you'll need to get it from http://asio.sf.net/

It would have been nice though if the name had been changed to something like Boost.Net or Boost.Sockets. It's no wonder that someone looking for network and sockets support doesn't find Boost.Asio. Boris

On 19/07/07, Olaf van der Spek wrote:

On 7/19/07, Boris wrote:

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It would have been nice though if the name had been changed to something like Boost.Net or Boost.Sockets. It's no wonder that someone looking for network and sockets support doesn't find Boost.Asio.

I doubt http://boost.org/libs/libraries.htm won't mention network or sockets once Asio is included.

My understanding is that there will be future additions to ASIO to cover IO with sources and sinks other than sockets, such as files, and that the name is intended to convey that. There was a lengthy discussion of names in the review, as I recall, which should have more details. I think the consensus was that ASIO isn't great, but that nothing better was found. ~ Scott