[boost] Re: Sockets - what's the latest?

From: David B. Held (dheld_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-02-13 16:57:00

"Boris Schäling" <boris_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:LOBBKDBPKEGJJFKNFHKBOEBFIJAA.boris_at_highscore.de...
> [...]
> Noone knows as there is no consensus on how the library's
> architecture should look like. There are different approaches and
> proposals at Boost Wiki and in the sandbox but what's still missing
> is the big picture. As far as there are no ideas of how to get a
> reasonable model which incorporates different things like
> blocking/non-blocking/multiplexing/asynchronous/extensible... there
> won't be much progress. I've been thinking about that and hope to
> come up with an idea in a few days.

How about borrowing ideas from ACE, but implementing them in
modern C++?  Or has that been discussed already?  Or is the ACE
framework too obsolete-C++ to be a useful design?

Dave