Mariano Consoni wrote:
Hi!
I'm a Msc. student. Last years, I've been using boost for a lot of tasks, and I liked too much its philosophy.
Hello, welcome :-)
Aside from that, I've worked some time creating some kind of library/code to support the need of plugins in applications. The development went through different approaches over the time... and I think that now I have good ideas to do a good implementation (using .dll/.so and a framework of callback to initialize/destroy plugins and implement the interfaces).
At least, I think that it works well in Windows and Linux (so maybe it will work well in most unices) because I tried some prototypes and I think that it could be a great tool for the opensource community (because as far as I know, there isn't a library that does this job).
So I'm writing this email because I want to know if there is interest in the community of a project of this type, because I want to participe in Boost/SoC and if it isn't interesting I will try to find some other idea.
I think it's a plausible idea although there has already ben some proposal in this area. http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2007/02/117030.php http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost-extension/ That said, it might make it more reasonable to bring things to completion within the SoC time frame, so I wouldn't rule it out at this point.
I know that "new library" projects maybe are bad seen for SoC, but I think that this could be a very concrete project, with short-term useful deliverables.
That's really the key. We will be looking for attainable goals.
Thanks!
ps: apart from that, other idea that i've for SoC is a timer pool library, similar to SDL's but using boost::threads.
I was thinking there might be something like that is asio already, but I'm not seeing it at the moment.... In any case, please do consider applying -- there are lots of possible projects and folks are definitely willing to help you get something that will work. Jeff