Re: [boost] Anyone is interested in being review manager of ‘Application’?

Subject: Re: [boost] Anyone is interested in being review manager of ‘Application’?
From: Renato Forti (rtforti_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-05-06 16:50:26

Hi Sohail,

Thanks I will check your lib! You have interest in be  review manage?

Thanks again!

2014-05-05 16:58 GMT-03:00 Sohail Somani <sohail_at_[hidden]>:

> On 03/05/2014 9:34 AM, Renato Forti wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>
>>
>> The proposed ‘Boost.Application’, needs a Review Manager. Anyone is
>> interested?
>>
>>
>>
>> The Docs:
>>
>> http://www.dokfile.com/appbeta4/docs/libs/application/doc/html/index.html
>>
>
> It's certainly a well-documented library but also contains a lot of
> different concepts!
>
> Anyway, I don't know about being a review manager but I can make a
> suggestion:
>
> The application::context type functions as a service locator (i.e., the
> Big Fat Service Locator Pattern). This is generally considered an
> anti-pattern because it is difficult to see dependencies for a piece of
> code without reading the code itself and even then, you can miss it.
>
> What I would suggest the author (is that you?) look into is a way to
> automate the provision of all the data the application needs, perhaps in
> the application's constructor or in the function call operator(). The
> technique is generally known as dependency injection and is usually coupled
> with an inversion of control container. Something that is quite encouraging
> is in reading the code for the proposed library, you seem to have most of
> the pieces anyway.
>
> I have written my own library for this purpose[1] but it is fairly
> unsuitable for consumption by anyone but me. Feel free to steal ideas if
> you think they are useful to you.
>
> Sohail
>
> [1] https://bitbucket.org/cheez/dicpp/wiki/Home
>
>
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