Re: [boost] Boost engine: my two words

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-24 16:30:00

luca regini wrote:
[...]

Yes, more application level libraries are important.

> Anyway i see that still
> boost miss some pieces that are very important for enterprise
> applications:

> for example a logging library

Yes, and there have been various attempts to create a logging library. 
But the price to pay for coherency, to the C++ standard libraries in the 
case of Boost, is that it takes time and many times multiple tries to 
come up with such libraries.

> and a database library.

Since this is a particular interest to me I must ask... What do you 
consider as a "database library"? I ask because there are numerous types 
of databases, and numerous interfacing to "data".

> A synchronous networking library could also be needed by some
> applications.

Could you be more specific as to what you mean by "synchronous"? And how 
is that not covered by the ASIO library?

> I believe that any effort to promote boost could be
> better spent on developing this kind of enteprise code.

They don't seem to be exclusive activities to me. Do you have other 
libraries in mind than the above? It would good to know what kinds of 
libraries *users* want. And more specifically to add this information to 
the wiki [**], so that when volunteers are looking to do work for Boost 
they can have a ready set of ideas to work on. Specifically this is 
something we really need if we want to continue participating in the 
Google Summer of Code program.

[**] There's an existing list of library requests in the wiki 
<http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?WantedLibraries>.

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