Re: [boost] DotNet FileSystemWatcher like library proposal.

Subject: Re: [boost] DotNet FileSystemWatcher like library proposal.
From: Fernando Pelliccioni (fpelliccioni_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-03 08:33:01

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Stewart, Robert <Robert.Stewart_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> Fernando Pelliccioni wrote:
>
> [Please don't top post.]
>
> > Eric.Malenfant_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > > De Scott McMurray:
> > > > On 29 April 2010 23:43, Fernando Pelliccioni wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Basically the library monitors for file system changes
> > > > > and notifiesthrowing events.
> > > >
> > > > I think that'd definitely be a worthy addition.
> > > >
> > > > I'm curious how you see the interface.  Perhaps something
> > > > inspired by ASIO?
> > >
> > > In fact, I think that something for ASIO already exists. See this
> > > thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.asio.user/2699/
>
> > Really I didn't think to create the File System Monitor like an ASIO
> > extension.
> >
> > The design of the library is not thinking like ASIO. The
> > events and handlers system is implemented using Boost.Function.
>
> Do you think that is a superior approach or just what had occurred to you?
>  If the latter, do you like the Asio approach better?
>
>
I think that an approach such as ASIO is better.
I'm changing the interface to resemble to the example sent by Boris.

> > Until today I did not know about the implementation of Boris.
> > It would have been useful to know it.
>
> That raises the question of how such tools should be managed.  Should there
> be a place in the Wiki to refer to things built atop Asio that others might
> find useful?  Should such tools be proposed, reviewed, and accepted as
> official parts of Asio?
>

I don't know. I think that if the interface is similar to ASIO, this new
functionality should be included within it.
I should talk to the ASIO creators/maintainers.

Regards,
Fernando Pelliccioni.