Re: [boost] ANN: POCO - C++ Portable Components

From: Cliff Green (cliffg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-21 18:51:57

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:21:09 -0700
  "Sohail Somani" <s.somani_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> My colleague just showed me a very concise example of 
>how he created a
> service that can be registered with Windows. The same 
>code works for
> Unix as well.
> 
> I don't think there are any boost libraries that can do 
>this yet.
> 

Agreed, and as I noted there's other components of POCO 
that are not (yet) in Boost (in particular, XML parsers). 
So what about someone submitting a "service" library for 
Boost? (I'm not sure what the definition of a service is - 
I'm a little bit familiar with Windows services, and the 
same for Unix daemons, but not sure what the higher-level 
abstraction for both would be, since the details of both 
OS facilities have some significant differences.)

Cliff