On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 02:31:17PM -0700, Jeff Garland wrote:
would encourage you to help on boost.socket et. al.
Are you the author of boost.socket? I mailed to the email address given on sourceforge (the giallo project) but got no response. I assumed the project was dead.
Honestly, I think there isn't much overlap between boost.socket and IOStreams. In previous discussion, we hashed around the idea of having a streambuf and stream to use with sockets -- it's been so long since I looked at it I'm not sure what if anything got implemented.
I am interested in designing a standalone multiplexor library. It should merely *support* IOStream - it should be possible to use the two together in a seemless way. The multiplexor library itself however is not really related to streambufs imho.
Also, if it's just multiplexing then there were a few ideas we discussed -- again I don't think there's implementation of all these things yet.
http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?BoostSocket/M...
Yes I already read that.
If you can't wait or depend on pre-beta software then really you should consider using ACE. There's lots of things about ACE that are ugly, but there are plenty of things to like. It's robust, cross-platform, and used on real projects everywhere -- you can count on it actually working.
Did you read my previous posts? Please do so. Have a look at point 5. Please reply to point 1 through 6 in that order (and only post in a next thread when you basically agree with the previous thread).
I still want to see a modern replacement adopted into boost, but you have figure it would be at least a year out -- assuming someone was really working on it :-(
I am about 20 times faster than most people (according to my boss) :) On the other hand - I think I'll need 2 months for the code - and another 1 or 2 months for documentation and examples, because I am not familiar with windows (yet) (if it were only unix then 365/20 = 18 days would indeed be more than enough). However - lots and lots and lots of time will be spend on waiting for people to reply to posts - and RE-post the same things over and over because they don't read things very well :p. I am not sure yet if I will have the patience for that :/ - we'll see how that goes. I had the plan to wait with further development till several people had replied the 6 threads that I started - but after 24 hours still no real reply has been posted, and not doing anything for more than a day is not acceptable. I guess I will have to continue without feedback then :(. Unfortunately - additional posts (like a point 7, 8 etc. do make sense without feedback - because they would be 'fuzzy' brainstorm things, lots of feedback back and forward with a very small delay will be necessary to make any progress imho. Perhaps, if you are the author of boost.socket, we should do this in a private mail exchange? -- Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>