Re: [boost] Re: Network library: What we have until now

From: Iain Hanson (Iain.Hanson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-13 06:32:06

Hi,

On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 11:24 +0200, Douglas Gregor wrote:
> On Apr 13, 2005, at 10:49 AM, Boris wrote:
> 
> Here's the problem: we've been discussing and working on a sockets 
> library for *years*. People have come, started working on it, and left 
> before anything ever came up for review. It's getting to the point 
> where it's become embarrassing to Boost that we *don't* have a sockets 
> library yet.
> 
> Here's more motivation: the C++ committee is planning to finish the 
> next revision of the C++ standard in the next few years, and I stress 
> *few*. Boost has been a wonderful source of libraries for the C++ 
> committee, and C++ would be greatly improved if the next version of the 
> standard library contained a sockets library... this library could be 
> that library, but we have to finish it, review it, and be sure it's 
> right. We can't review what doesn't come up for review. "Finished" is 
> more important than "complete".
> 

I won't make any promises ( i did that before and was not able to keep
them ) but I'm hoping to publish my socket lib ( layer 1) in the next
few weeks. The design is complete ( I hope ) after many revisions and I
am currently implementing it again.

Basic concepts supported are:

address
socket
select 
fd_set
socket_options

Protocol support is for IPv4 and IPv6 with unicast, broadcast, and
multicast.

additionally, I have support for routing, raw, and data link layer
sockets.

Initial implementation will be for gcc and Linux only and once I have
had a preliminary review I'll add Intel on Linux , and GCC on Windows
Impl. 

/ikh