Re: [Boost-users] Transferring files across a network.

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Transferring files across a network.
From: Andrew Maclean (andrew.amaclean_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-01-16 17:03:42

Asio is not just nice, it is elegant, just like most of boost. I have
been using boost for years (since 2000) and pushing its usage here for
that time. However people still reinvent the wheel ... often poorly.
The libraries I use most are threads and filesystem.
I will certainly be using it. I see now that my stumbling block was
integrating the filesystem with asio.

One thing with boost: whenever you use it to solve a problem, I find
that it often exposes new ways of doing things.

Thanks
   Andrew

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Scott Gifford
<sgifford_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> "Andrew Maclean" <andrew.amaclean_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> What I am thinking of doing is sending the all the files to a
>> directory on the central machine then parsing them there for
>> subsequent inclusion into the database.
>
> Just something to think about: On Unix at least, it would be very
> simple to do this with rsync and a couple cron jobs.  I suspect
> compatible programs and similar mechanisms exist on most other OS's.
> You may want to look at what higher-level tools you could use to
> accomplish this before you delve into the code.
>
> If you do decide to code it up, asio is very nice, and quite fun to
> learn.
>
> Good luck!
>
> ----Scott.
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