Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] Updates on urllib-dean branch

[Glyn M. <gly...@gm...>]

2009/11/8 Dean Michael Berris <mik...@gm...>

> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Glyn Matthews <gly...@gm...>
> wrote:
> > 2009/11/6 Dean Michael Berris <mik...@gm...>
>
>
> > We can use Git with sourceforge, that's not a problem.  I know that a
> Trac
> > plugin exists for Git and that there a plenty of tools available for
> > switching between git and SVN so maybe we can do this without a lot of
> > disruption.
>
>
> Nice! Yes, this is what I was thinking, we can use the Git hosting
> from Sourceforge -- and then integrate changes from Git to SVN trunk,
> for people still tracking the SVN repository.
>
>
Yeah, I'll do this once we've merged the URI to trunk and released 0.4.


> >>
> >> Also, I plan to make a presentation about cpp-netlib at BoostCon 2010
> >> -- it would be great if we can get a 1.0 out before February 2010 so
> >> that we'll have a presentation ready by then. :D
> >
> > That's really interesting.  What do you propose to talk about?
> >
>
> Once we have an implementation out that's ready for general user
> consumption, I plan to really do a "media blitz" at some point next
> year (starting with BoostCon) to get people interested in the project
> to try it out and let us developers what they think. A DDJ article
> wouldn't help too, and more blog exposure would be nice to have.
>

A DDJ article *would* help ;)  The blog at blogspot has way too much spam in
the comments, making it ineffective because we can't get feedback.  If you
feel like adding a new post describing progress, you should do so.  More
community exposure is necessary for progress.  Also there is an ohloh
account:

http://www.ohloh.net/p/cpp-netlib


>
> One of the things I'd like to talk about is the way we're going about
> the header-only approach to implementing an "embeddable" HTTP client.
> So far nothing out there is like what we have (even in its most
> primitive but functional form) because what we do offer is a really
> simple and flexible way of letting users create HTTP requests through
> the client abstraction. Even Python libraries are very heavy
> especially if you want to do anything more complex than pulling a web
> page. The MFC and .NET library for network programming (with HTTP) are
> just horribly clumsy and unwieldy for any beginner or developer not
> really writing a web browser.
>
> At some point I would like to see cpp-netlib graduate into Boost, and
> continue developing network-specific implementations separately, keep
> improving, and somehow be a basis for a proposal to be part of the
> next C++ standard library.
>
> Wouldn't it be cool to have C++ programs be able to pull a webpage by
> just doing:
>
>  http::client c;
>  http::response r = c.get("http://www.boost.org/");
>
> A non-throwing version would look like:
>
>  http::client c;
>  http::response r;
>  system::error_code e;
>  tie(r,e) = c.get("http://www.boost.org/", http::nothrow);
>
> ? :D
>
> std::nothrow? But yes, this looks good :)

G