Re: [boost] Help with a Sockets library?

From: Iain.Hanson_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-07-27 12:21:10

     I don't think that socket++ is the best starting point for a sockets 
     lib. I would prefer a layered approach where:
     
     Layer 1
     Very light weight wrappers to the socket api. This would be mainly be 
     targeted at protocol implementers and would provide platform 
     independance.
     
     Layer 2
     Safe acceptor/ connector classes ? maybe with pluggable marshalling
     
     Layer 3
     iostream inteface possibly with searchable buffering.
     
     The main idea being to follow the normal C++ principal of you only pay 
     for what you use and to provide a library suitable for hard real-time  
     protocol developers through to a simple high level interface suitable 
     for relative novices.
     
     /ikh
     

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Subject: Re: [boost] Help with a Sockets library?
Author:  jdy (jdy_at_[hidden]) at unix,mime
Date:    27/07/01 17:48

     
     
Gary said:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/message/5101
     
Ok,
     
Here are my socket++ tracking results:
     
original author:
  Gnanasekaran Swaminathan <gs4t_at_[hidden]>     dead address 
  Gnanasekaran Swaminathan <sysgxs_at_[hidden]> dead address 
  Gnanasekaran Swaminathan <sekar_at_[hidden]>
     
  He does not answer email at savvis.com
     
QNX
  sroberts_at_[hidden]
  expressed interest in cleaning up and freshmeating it 
  http://www.emyr.net/Sam/
    qnx support, added POP3
    1.10.3
     
FreeBSD:  sander <sander_at_[hidden]> claims gpl:
  http://www.ug.cs.sunysb.edu/src/ports/net/libsocket++/pkg-descr 
  When I questioned him, he states that he is no longer the package
  manager and that he must have had good reason for claiming gpl ness. 
     
"Greg Lavender" <lavender_at_[hidden]>
     uses 1.10 version for class
   expressed intension/desire to rewrite from ground up in 
   standard C++ under BSD style license.  needs student to do 
   so
     
linux: Lauri Nurmi <lanurmi_at_[hidden]> 
 http://www.kauhajoki.fi/~lanurmi/socket++/files/
  1.11
  1.11ln with some patches to build on linux, gcc 2.96(whatver?)
     
OS/2:
 http://www.io.com/~pelliott/pme/
     
Other related libraries:
     
skstream
  cvs from worldforge
  /forge/libs/skstream
  http://mail.worldforge.org/archive/server/2001-May/003784.html 
     
  provides just a socket stream
     
cppadvio
  http://pobox.com/~oleg/ftp/ 
  http://www.lh.com/~oleg/ftp/packages.html#cpp.advio
     
  bigendian, little endian streams,
  TCP stream, logging, vocabulary, extended filenames *** 
  can link over open() providing extended file semantics
     
boost - more_io
  takes FILE* as constructor for stream
  works great for real files, but not for streams like from pipe
     
procbuf old gcc
  depracated not in libstdc++-v3
     
CommonC++ - A GNU Portable Application Framework
  http://www.voxilla.org/projects/projape.html 
  http://sf.net/projects/cplusplus/   <--nice project name :-) 
  very comprehensive but kind of API-ish rather
  than library.
     
ACE - of course
     
Joel
jdy_at_[hidden]
     
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