Dhiman Lahiri wrote:

Hello,

We are planning to port our Windows software on to Linux and we were thinking of Boost and ACE as alternatives. But I am not sure as to which one would suit our needs. The things we need from the library would be:

I would recommend looking at POCO too. The focus of ACE and Boost is rather different. POCO is more like ACE in some respects but feels to me rather slicker - but the IO model is essentially blocking with threads. Having said that, you could probably use asio with it.