RE: [boost] Possible interest in libraries - sockets

From: Sam Partington (Sam.Partington_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-23 03:45:46

Personally I would love to see a sockets library implemented in boost.  And
I know the topic is brought up from time to time.  I've been working on one
myself for a while, but I consider it far too incomplete to consider
submitting it. (For one thing, it misses out UDP and IPv6 completely).

Your sockets library looks very interesting, and after a fairly short
perusal of the source these are my first thoughts:

- I think its missing include wrappers to adapt a socket into a class
derived from basic_streambuf< > an invaluable addition to any sockets
library I think, and its only a hundred lines of code or so.

- socketClass::send / recv, sendto / recvfrom in sock.h.  The 'variadic'
argument passing method of using a map of strings to void * arguments seems
unneccessarily complicated and inefficient.  Not to mention type-unsafe.

- small point, why does basicException not derive from std::exception?

The second library also looks interesting, but I've not had time to look at
that in depth yet.

Sam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden]
> [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]]On Behalf Of Robert Whitten
> Sent: 22 September 2002 12:18
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: [boost] Possible interest in libraries
>
>
> Greeting Boosts Community:
>
> The following is a description of two libraries developed at East
> Tennessee
> State University by Dr. Phil Pfeiffer.  I am a research assistant that has
> been assigned the task of preparing these libraries for submission to
> boost.org if there is interest.  Your comments are appreciated and
> encouraged.

<snip>

> More complete descriptions plus source code can be found at:
> http://csciwww.etsu.edu/phil/freeware.htm
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