[boost] Re: Sockets: proposal for a library design

From: Jonathan Biggar (jon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-12 20:54:38

Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:
> Perhaps a reason that noone has designed a really great sockets library
> yet is that there is little practical reason to, as BSD sockets is
> probably more portable (from a practical standpoint) than a Boost
> library will ever be, and libraries try to that "abstract" it have done
> nothing but get in the way.

Sockets themselves aren't that big a deal.  The abstraction won't add a 
lot there, except for stuff like translating addresses from 
human-readable form to what is used by the sockets interface.

The key functionality of a sockets library will be the dispatch 
mechanism.  Something that streamlines how blocking/non-blocking mode 
interacts with select/poll/devpoll/windows events and a threaded vs 
reactive model will be highly valuable.  Particularly if library allows 
the choices to be changed without affecting much/any of the code.

-- 
Jonathan Biggar
jon_at_[hidden]