Re: [boost] asio formal review begins

From: Stefan Seefeld (seefeld_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-14 12:05:10

Arkadiy Vertleyb wrote:

> Maybe I got a wrong impression, but to me it looks like asio is offered (or
> perceived) as something like Boost Networking Library.  And as such, I would
> expect clean sockets from it.  Otherwise, who will provide them?  Do we
> expect another Socket class to be reviewed any time soon?

There was a very good discussion about this some months ago, when someone
posted a layered design.

I think ideally a (network) stream API would thus be layered on top of asio.
In fact, if the low level 'transport protocol' is being made a policy, the
stream API could be parametrized to only depend on asio if async operations
are requested.

Regards,
                Stefan