Jeff Garland wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:40:34 -0600, Jonathan Turkanis wrote
1. Inter-process communications, including simple popen-type usage, like a scripting language; also pipes for forking 2. Socket communications, TCP UDP and unix
For the 1.34 release of Boost, I'm planning to add socket and pipe Devices to Boost.Iostreams, which is debuting in 1.33 (http://boost-consulting.com/boost/libs/iostreams)
There's also been some work on Boost.Process -- see:
http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?BoostProcess
But it's not official yet.
3. Serial communications, and a wrapper to set the serial parameters
For 1. and 2., we are currently using the socket++ library. I am also aware of the PStreams library for 1. for 3. we use hacked together mix of C and C++.
Is there any sort of joint strategy planned to tackle this area? If there is, I may be able to contribute.
There's been a lot of work on networking, most recently by Pedro Lamarão (see the archives). I'm sure your contributions would be welcomed.
And formally by Hugo Duncan and many others:
http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?BoostSocket http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Multiplexing
I've thought for some time now we need a collaborative team to work the networking area. Reason being that we never seem to get a single author that can carry it end to end (not enough Robert Ramey's around :).
While working with network IOStreams, I found it extremely useful to spend much time actually implementing example usage. I think one of the greates difficulties with providing a solution to all of the requirements mentioned in past discussion is just that they are so many, and it's not really obvious just from the discussion how required are they really. If such a team were to be formed, I'd like to offer my help in this area: actually providing sample implementations of the expected idioms the library is meant to support. -- Pedro Lamarão Desenvolvimento Intersix Technologies S.A. SP: (55 11 3803-9300) RJ: (55 21 3852-3240) www.intersix.com.br Your Security is our Business