Hi,
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I have only read the tutorial and some of the source. I have not tried to install it now, but this looks great to me. Just one minor thing: do I understand it correctly, that app.status() actually runs the application? I am not sure, I if I really understood your code there. For me that would be a bit odd. I'd have expected something like app.run(), or even better app(): int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { try { boost::application::application<myapp> app( argc, argv ); return app(); } catch(const boost::application::application_error &e) { std::cout << e.what() << std::endl; } return 1; }; status() looks like just getting the status, which I would expect to be a lightweight operation. A convenience extension could be to have a standard main() implementation: int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { return boost::application::run_application<myapp>( argc, argv ); }; Maybe that is an idea for the future. Also for the future I'd like to think about more sophisticated application types, like e.g. web applications with various APIs, e.g. CGI, FastCGI, apache Module, IIS Module, etc. Do you think, that your solution would be extensible enough for something like that? Christof -- okunah gmbh Software nach Maß Werner-Haas-Str. 8 www.okunah.de 86153 Augsburg cd@okunah.de Registergericht Augsburg Geschäftsführer Augsburg HRB 21896 Christof Donat UStID: DE 248 815 055