Re: [boost] Asio and Boost

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-07 10:28:17

Richard Newman wrote:
> Ping.  It's been a couple of days since I posted this.  Not to be too 
> impatient, but does anyone have any advice or is the most appropriate 
> person to reply off list right now?
> 
> Regards,
> Richard
> 
> 
> Richard Newman wrote:
>> I know that sometime ago before the release of 1.34 that Asio was 
>> accepted as a Boost library, but I've lost track of its status.  It 
>> doesn't appear in the boost.org libraries documentation (at least not in 
>> the main page of http://www.boost.org/libs/libraries.htm) or in the 
>> boost distribution.
>>
>> We've been on boost 1.33 with an older snapshot of asio's source.  We're 
>> looking to update to boost 1.34.1 which is not playing nice with our 
>> older snapshot.
>>
>> I know we can go to asio.sourceforge to update the snapshot, but is 
>> there an official "supported"/released version of Asio we're supposed to 
>> use with the formal 1.34.1 boost release?  We don't want to just drop in 
>> some recent not-ready-for-prime-time intermediate version, but one that 
>> we can reasonably trust as verified with 1.34.1.  In essence, we want to 
>> have our use of Asio in line with however it is best aligned with how 
>> Boost intends to bring it in.

You should be able to make the latest asio snapshot work with 1.34.1 -- you 
would need to pull the 'system' library from subversion, however, to do this 
since it depends on this library now.  That's a change from older versions.  I 
haven't looked to see if Chris has updated the instructions somewhere, but 
it's not that hard to do.  This change is a result of standardization work -- 
'system' is targeted to be part of c++0x and provides a core for error 
handling related to OS interfaces.

>> Are there non-Boost, non-Asio dependencies required for such a version? 
>>    We're also trying to limit the bounds of non-Boost libraries we include.
>>
>> Is there a committed time table for releasing (and documenting) Asio as 
>> a first class citizen in Boost's release, so we don't have to reach 
>> outside of Boost's formal release process?

Asio will be in the 1.35 release of Boost which we are trying to complete 
before year end.  So if you can wait a bit longer the problem should just go away.

>> Please feel free to direct me to another thread if this has recently 
>> been discussed elsewhere.

This is the right place....sorry you had to ask twice...

Jeff