Re: [boost] ASIO into the standard

Subject: Re: [boost] ASIO into the standard
From: Bjorn Reese (breese_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-07-06 06:57:23

On 07/04/2014 01:22 PM, Niall Douglas wrote:

> All that said, I agree that Boost.iostreams' fundamental design
> failure is that it wasn't built atop a 100% async i/o framework like
> ASIO. Which is a shame, as STL iostreams could do with being
> replaced.

FYI, Gene Panov has submitted an async extension for Boost.Iostreams:

   http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2013/10/206826.php

I have been helping him getting the patch to follow Boost convensions,
but perpetual lack of time has prevented me from finalizing it. The
current works is at:

https://github.com/breese/iostreams/tree/feature/async_stream/include/boost/iostreams/async