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

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-21 19:10:10

Cliff Green wrote:
> 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.)

This is something that could be part of boost.process which is an SOC project 
in the works now:

https://boost-consulting.com:8443/trac/soc/wiki/process

Julio and I have at least discussed that this could either be part or an 
extension of the core library -- see the bottom of:

https://boost-consulting.com:8443/trac/soc/wiki/process/DesignThoughts/Discussion

If you really want to see this functionality it would be good to say so.

Jeff