[boost] Asio and Boost

From: Richard Newman (richard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-04 16:06:03

I know that sometime ago before the release of 1.34 that Asio was 
accepted as a Boost library, but I've lost track of its status.  It 
doesn't appear in the boost.org libraries documentation (at least not in 
the main page of http://www.boost.org/libs/libraries.htm) or in the 
boost distribution.

We've been on boost 1.33 with an older snapshot of asio's source.  We're 
looking to update to boost 1.34.1 which is not playing nice with our 
older snapshot.

I know we can go to asio.sourceforge to update the snapshot, but is 
there an official "supported"/released version of Asio we're supposed to 
use with the formal 1.34.1 boost release?  We don't want to just drop in 
some recent not-ready-for-prime-time intermediate version, but one that 
we can reasonably trust as verified with 1.34.1.  In essence, we want to 
have our use of Asio in line with however it is best aligned with how 
Boost intends to bring it in.

Are there non-Boost, non-Asio dependencies required for such a version? 
   We're also trying to limit the bounds of non-Boost libraries we include.

Is there a committed time table for releasing (and documenting) Asio as 
a first class citizen in Boost's release, so we don't have to reach 
outside of Boost's formal release process?

Please feel free to direct me to another thread if this has recently 
been discussed elsewhere.

Thanks,
Richard Newman
richard <at> cdres <dot> com