Re: [Monotone-devel] 3rd party libraries

[Zbynek Winkler]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Matthew Nicholson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Markus Wanner wrote:
>
>> In the archive I've read that boost::program_options didn't do what we
>> want. Looking at the boots documentation, I also see boost::asio - could
>> that perhaps be a better replacement for the (unmaintained) netxx?
>> Anybody used boost::asio before?
>>
>
> I use boost::asio in my astxx library.  I have not had any problems with it,
> seems well designed.  Also there is a non-boost version of it for the anti
> boost crowd (I happen to be pro-boost).

The description of the differences might be of interest:
http://think-async.blogspot.com/2008/05/boostasio-vs-asio.html
Particularly

> — Asio is header-file-only and for most uses does not require linking against
> any Boost library. Boost.Asio always requires that you link against the
> Boost.System library, and also against Boost.Thread if you want to launch
> threads using boost::thread.

Zbynek

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