pedro.lamarao@mndfck.org wrote:
Hello, all.
I see everybody has been talking about a networking library for a long while. Checking the wiki, I see that my own project has escaped attention. So, here it goes for the examination of the experts:
Socket streams have not been forgotten - see package iostream in http://www.highscore.de/boost/net/packages.png. However there hasn't been much talk about it lately as we were trying to get the big picture first (at least I :-). Right now I am also more interested in level 0 of the network library but had a glance at the documentation of your library and have a few questions: - Why is your socket streams library better than other socket streams libraries? (I ask to understand better the design and goals of your library.) - Do your socket streams support blocking and non-blocking I/O? - Is it possible to use your socket streams without them throwing exceptions? (I ask as I see a class socketstream::exception.) - As far as I can see your socket streams are not limited to stream sockets - you can use datagram or even raw sockets? I haven't thought about this yet but I am not sure if the interface of I/O streams makes sense for datagram and raw sockets? Boris