Re: [boost] [interprocess] A little gentle criticism

Subject: Re: [boost] [interprocess] A little gentle criticism
From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-22 05:04:40

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

Thanks.

> 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.

Thanks for your notes. I think I should add std::string overloads to 
those functions and retain old ones to avoid breaking source code. I'll 
add it to my to-do list.

Regards,

Ion