Hello Boost-dev and Boost-users,
I’m Paul Kirth, and I am the student working on the upcoming AFIO library this summer as part of GSoC. As of last week AFIO is fully ported to Boost and is now building cleanly on all of the last three major releases of the three most popular C++ compilers.
Niall Douglas, my mentor for AFIO, has previously mentioned on the list that we would be asking for your feedback regarding which new features would be most beneficial to the Boost community. We would like to accommodate you all, but with GSoC being limited in time and ending in just one month’s time now, we’re going to limit the current additions to the top 3 most requested features. I plan to stay involved with AFIO for as long as I am able, so I’m sure many more of these features can be supported by AFIO in the future.
I have set up a voting site on https://boostafio.uservoice.com to help with the voting. You may vote 10 times as you see fit, and you can give more (or all!) votes to those features you prefer the most. You may also add additional features not currently up for voting, so we encourage you to read the whole list of proposed additions before adding your own. Try to be descriptive with your feature request including a rationale, as not everyone involved with Boost may have the same expertise as you do. Including an example of how this feature would useful will help make a good case for your feature request, and help voters identify what is important. Finally, if you are not familiar with AFIO, we encourage you to take a look at our documentation at https://ci.nedprod.com/view/All/job/Boost.AFIO%20Build%20Documentation/Boost.AFIO_Documentation/. A link is also present on the voting site for your convenience. Additionally you will find our project on github at https://github.com/BoostGSoC/boost.afio, if you wish to dive into the source code for yourself.
Voting is open right now, so please be sure to vote before the voting period ends on 8/23/13 at 11:59 PM GMT-8:00.
We look forward to seeing which features are most important to the community, and hope to meet your expectations.
Quick list of the features already proposed:
Directory Monitoring Support
Permissions and ACL Support
Support for Boost Iostreams
Improve Formal Closure Execution Engine Support
Asynchronous Directory Enumeration
Memory Mapped File Support
Support for STL Iostreams
Linux Kernel AIO Backend
POSIX aio_* Asynchronous I/O Backend