On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 22:15:46 +0200, Carlo Wood wrote
Right now I am stuck - I need a demultiplexor library that works on at least windows and linux BADLY. I will have to make a start with this because there is not really anything else I can do (except when say, I'd quit working on my current project and continue with my ECC project that has been put in the freezer a while ago).
Well, if you have time and can take the risk of using pre-beta libs then I would encourage you to help on boost.socket et. al. 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. 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... 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. 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 :-( Jeff