[boost] [interprocess] A little gentle criticism

Subject: [boost] [interprocess] A little gentle criticism
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-21 21:49:56

First of all I really appreciate the interprocess Boost library for its 
rich set of synchronization primitives and shared memory techniques.

Now to my gentle ( maybe not so gentle ) criticism. What was the reason 
for using C-style null-terminated strings in much of the functionality 
rather than std::basic_string ? Isn't it about time, in the advanced C++ 
libraries of today, that we should wean ourselves aay from C-isms, which 
no C++ programmer, unles on pain of supporting hopelessly legacy style 
code, has not used in years and years ? To see constructors taking 
C-style strings rather than std::basic_string in a modern C++ library 
like interprocess is a real psychological disappointment. At the very, 
very least, the author of the library should have also provided the 
equivalent functionality with std::basic_string.

Please Boost developers, C++ programmers deserve not to deal with 
C-style strings anymore. Personally I do not think anything new coming 
out of the C++, including the C++ standard committee, should have any 
functionality taking a 'const charType *' from now to to the end of C++ 
eternity  <g>.

Other than the above I really enjoy using interprocess and say bravo to 
the author of the library for a well thought out implementation. But how 
this C-ism got by the reviewers I will never know.