RE: [boost] Re: sockets library

From: Jeremy Siek (jsiek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-12-19 14:18:01

Yes, we don't necessarily want to be bigger, but if possible, we do want
to be safer, which is what I meant by "carried even further".

On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Jeff Garland wrote:

> > So, I completely agree with Jeremy!
> > It would be really cool to see the concepts of ACE brought into the
> > Boost Sockets and maybe "carried even further". Would that be ACE on
> > steroids? ;-)
>
> Hopefully not!  I think of on steroids as "bigger" and certainly we don't want
> to be bigger than ACE.  Don't get me wrong, ACE is an industrial grade solution
> ported to every platform imaginable -- some that barely support C++.  Of course
> it was also written b/f C++ was standardized.  Hopefully boost sockets should be
> a bit lighter :-)
>
> Jeff
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