Re: [boost] Is Boost interested in the Boost-based Base64 library

Subject: Re: [boost] Is Boost interested in the Boost-based Base64 library
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-06-09 17:44:58

Denis Shevchenko wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Not so long ago I was looking for a solution to Base64
> encoding/decoding.
> In this page -
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_46_1/libs/serialization/doc/dataflow.html
> - I found example of such solution, with 'base64_from_binary' and
> 'transform_width' iteartors. But it is just a "blank", not
> ready-to-use solution.

Hmmm - I'm not sure what this means.  It is used in serialization library
so it's not just a "blank".

Perhaps you're refering to the way it's implemented by building
up from more primitive concepts using concepts now implemented
are part of the range library.   It predates the range library but it
seems to me it's very similar.  I find the way it's implemented
very appealing.  For example, if one wanted to change the line
length, this would be easy to do without adding anything.  The
base64 implementation in the serialization library isn't really
a library, but more of an instance of a huge family of text
processing facilities.  So I think a much more interesting and useful
project would be:

"an optimally  fast, character range processing library which can be used
construct a wide variety of character processing algorithms by
composition of more primitive concepts in a regular way."  Examples
include base64, ... and generation of custom code_convert facets
for io_streams..

Robert Ramey