Hi Darren! On 5/18/07, Darren Garvey <lists.drrngrvy@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi Dean,
On 18/05/07, Dean Michael Berris <dmberris@friendster.com> wrote:
Those interested in being part of the project, please email me your sourceforge usernames so that I can add you up.
This project has come up at just the right time. There will certainly be some overlap between the proposed library and the library I'm working on for the GSoC (a CGI library). I've been trying very hard to imagine how the library can be structured so that HTTP and other protocols can in theory be incorporated later on.
We can help with the imagining I think... I'm writing it down (my thoughts) on paper (err, in my case a Wiki) as well how I think the protocol libraries can work together by accepting and creating a common message type which (among other things) includes information about the messages to be sent/received over the network. This will use extensive parsing libraries/implementations that use either spirit or proto to convert from string form (stuff that comes from the network) into a 'message' object and the other way around -- from a message object to a valid message depending on the protocol chosen. This should allow other libraries to "just recognize and deal with the message class/object" and work together and build on top of each other.
A networking and a CGI library are definitely distinct, but (IMHO) both could really benefit from being interoperable and reusing code. I'm trying to get my ideas down on paper at the moment; when they're done I'll put them on the boost wiki (http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/soc/2007/cgi). If you (or any others) have suggestions to help interoperability or see any glaring flaws or crude assumptions I've made which hamper it, please tell me! :)
Sweet! Okay, please let us know, I'm definitely interested in collaborating and making the libraries work better together!
Thanks, Darren
Thank you too! :) -- Dean Michael C. Berris http://cplusplus-soup.blogspot.com/ mikhailberis AT gmail DOT com +63 928 7291459