Re: [boost] base64?

On 24/07/17 16:28, Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Vinnie Falco wrote:

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On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Greger via Boost wrote: I also see this note:

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It is available for a moderate compensation. Let me know by email and I will send you the source.

Is this library open source or commercial in nature? What license is it furnished under? Also, how is this better than the numerous other base64 libraries (which are free) such as this one:

http://renenyffenegger.ch/notes/development/Base64/Encoding-and-decoding-bas...

Or https://github.com/ome/ome-common-cpp/blob/master/lib/ome/common/base64.h which I probably wrote based on a similar source when I realised the Boost base64 support was broken and needed a quick implementation. It avoids allocation issues by allowing the use of iterators including back_inserter. We already have base64 conversion in boost/archive/iterators/*base64*.hpp. It works but screws up the whitespace (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10521581/base64-encode-using-boost-throw...). It's a shame the various adapters don't work properly together; is there any prospect of this being fixed, or is the existing design simply too inflexible to make a proper base64 implementation? Regards, Roger