Re: [boost] boost lib must provide C interface?!

Subject: Re: [boost] boost lib must provide C interface?!
From: Oliver Kowalke (oliver.kowalke_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-05-13 09:08:43

Hi Artyom,

sorry it was a misunderstanding with Vicente - I assumed I'm forced to provide a C-API for boost.context.
It seams that only a low level API is required (but still C++).

oliver

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Fri, 13 May 2011 05:50:07 -0700 (PDT)
> Von: Artyom <artyomtnk_at_[hidden]>
> An: boost_at_[hidden]
> Betreff: Re: [boost] boost lib must provide C interface?!

> > From: Oliver Kowalke <oliver.kowalke_at_[hidden]>
> > Hi,
> > 
> > can a boost C++ library be required/forced to provide a C  API?
> 
> As somebody who loves and uses C as well as C++ I can tell you:
> 
> These languages are too different and what you asking as same as to
> ask from Java library to provide C++ API (even the last is simpler :-))
> 
> However if you ask if there is a good framework/set of libraries
> for easy C development, there are.
> 
> There two big, widely deployed and uses libraries that do
> very fine job proving a good set of general functions:
> 
> 1. GLib: threading, io, unicode, regular expression, networking,
>    containers and more. (LGPL)
> 
> 2. APR (Apache Portable Runtime) a huge set of functions like
>    networking, memory, containers and more. (Apache license)
> 
> So basically if you are looking for a set of C libraries
> that provide good functionality (like Boost) then these
> libraries are your friends.
> 
> However if you looking libraries for specific tasks there
> are plenty:
> 
> - Networking - libevent and some other friends
> - Threading pthread API (pthread-win32 for windows)
> - Regular Expressions - PCRE
> - Unicode - ICU
> - SQL - libdbi and some others
> - XML - libxml2
> 
> And more and more.
> 
> So basically there are "Boost-for-C" libraries, they just
> not called Boost but rather Glib, APR :-)
> 
> (And BTW some of them reacher then Boost)
> 
> Artyom
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