On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:57:30 +0200, Ilya Sokolov <ilyasokol@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Ilya,
Boris wrote:
[snip] I just saw that Ilya Sokolov created another snapshot based on Boost.Process in SVN. That means we have again at least two different versions of Boost.Process. :-/
It is not a problem. We can merge our libraries, but I prefer to do it later, when we both investigate the most of problems independently. I hope we will achieve a better design this way, what do you think?
from what I understand you plan more to play around with the design? My plan was and is to create a Boost.Process version which works reliably today as I need to manage child processes in a commercial software (that was the reason why I picked up Boost.Process at all). That's why I concentrated on stabilizing code and testing everything. If you plan to continue to play around with the design (like dropping classes like posix_context and win32_context) I think it's a good idea to do this in a different version. I wouldn't mind if someone takes over my Boost.Process version (feel free to copy the implementation of various functions if you want, Ilya). I just need versions which are safe to use in a commercial project. From what I've seen your Boost.Process version wouldn't compile for example in MSVC if Unicode is used? Regarding future development: I plan to improve support for asynchronous I/O. I'm also interested in integrating Boost.Interprocess and Boost.Process somehow (like using shared memory instead of streams for interprocess communication). What are your plans? Boris