On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 5:50 AM, David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
At Wed, 2 Jun 2010 13:00:21 -0600, OvermindDL1 wrote:
Wow, this Wt thing looks really, really cool. I don't suppose they want to be part of Boost?
I would doubt it, it is a sub-project of the Emweb company with dual GPL/Commercial license, they only keep it running and updating to support their own efforts, like the Qt/Nokia relationship. Personally I question some of their design decisions, it would be quite interesting to create a replacement that is better optimized (in the boost style) with all that power. I can propose the question though.
If they are unlikely to be interested, maybe it would be better to quietly go about building the Boost Wt (which I presume would generate lots of other infrastructure Boost “should” have as a side-effect). Who's volunteering? :-)
Actually... I'm working on cpp-netlib [0] which already has an embeddable HTTP server template. One of the things next in the list is a web framework, which I will also start developing soon as I get enough time to go make it happen. Right now on my list of things to address with cpp-netlib are: * asynchronous HTTP client * HTTP server and client that supports streaming * web framework * SMTP client * XMPP client These have to absolutely be done before I even think about submitting for review and inclusion in Boost. Of course there's the documentation [1] thing, which definitely needs a face lift -- and more comments. The inspiration for the web framework is Ruby on Rails [2], which follows the MVC 2 pattern, and allows for a pluggable system of implementations of the different layers involved. In the cpp-netlib and Boost tradition, this is designed to be header-only. I'm definitely interested in hosting that effort in the cpp-netlib project if anybody comes forward with a fork of cpp-netlib [0] on Github, tests, properly attributed (copyright, Boost-licensed) code, and sparse documentation+examples. I don't mind discussing the effort here to expose cpp-netlib more to the larger Boost community (in case it's not obvious yet, this is a shameless plug :D). HTH [0] http://github.com/mikhailberis/cpp-netlib [1] http://cpp-netlib.github.com/ [2] http://rubyonrails.org/ -- Dean Michael Berris deanberris.com