Heya Dean, > I'm currently really busy with the day job taking on a more important > role in the team.
I sympathise with your "pain"! ;) > I personally am already using cpp-netlib in a couple of production > projects already and I can say it's proven to be stable enough for > REST use cases. I have successfully used cpp-netlib to interface with > Amazon AWS in a previous project and I think that's good enough > quality to build software around (if I may say so myself). ;-) I've been putting together a few small applications using cpp-netlib but I'm about to integrate it into our main codebase and so will be relying on it heavily over the next couple of weeks/months. I've got a couple of specific issues/queries but I'll leave them for another email. After spending a bit of time looking over the codebase I'd agree that the quality of the code is pretty high. It's initially quite dense (mostly due to the fusion compile-time templates and tags) and documentation is a little sparse (are you considering publishing the doco?) but once you get a feel for it the design seems sound and the code solid. > The server-side HTTP implementation however is something that I'm > currently fighting for to be released by my employer as Open Source > software. We've been using this HTTP server internally in production > and has proven to be flexible, extensible, and high performance enough > that I think it's worth the wait. Good luck with that, I'm sure the C++ community would appreciate it. FWIW we're currently using a modified version of one the boost::asio examples to handle incoming http requests. > I am personally waiting for the next standard before implementing much of the > things I'm envisioning for the library. I'm looking forward to the next standard too but I wouldn't have thought it would hold you up too much? > More specifically, I'm waiting for: > > - standardized futures Absolutely. Anthony Williams has been doing some great work in this space (http://www.justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk/files/futures_documentation.html). Looking forward to seeing his future library in boost soon (as I recall it's been accepted but not integrated yet). > - rvalue references and move semantics (for better performance) > - variadic templates > - auto and decltype All useful, for sure. I'm also keen to see lambdas. > Much of the code would work without these features but if writing more > and more features would be an effort that later would have to be > re-written I'm thinking of deferring the bulk of the work for later. Well, boost certainly appreciates compatibility with older compilers so if you are going for acceptance... :) > In the meantime though, you can get the latest released version and > try using it in your project -- we would love to hear what your > experience is like. In case you need anything specific addressed, I'm > sure we can work together to make it happen. Will do! I've been hesitant to post because I haven't really understood the library well enough but I think I've got enough experience now that I (hopefully) won't be wasting everyone's time. Thanks for such a prompt response. Cheers, Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com _______________________________________________ Cpp-netlib-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cpp-netlib-devel
