Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] Proposal: Utilities Directory

[Marshall C. <mcl...@gm...>]

On Feb 11, 2010, at 9:02 AM, Darren Garvey wrote:

> Hi Dean,
> 
> On 11 February 2010 14:25, Dean Michael Berris <mik...@gm...> wrote:
> I was thinking about this a little and thought it would be cool to
> have a collection of utilities of commonly-performed actions that
> others might find useful in the library. Off the top of my head I find
> that these would be cool functions/mini-libraries to have: 
>  * MIME Parser (Marshall Clow has a cool one worthy of more attention
> and discussion, hopefully he merges it into cpp-netlib in time for
> BoostCon 2010 ;) ).
> 
> I've taken a look at this. It looks pretty cool, like it could fit the bill. Two extra features that I would find very useful are:
> 
> * Either:
>   - Ability to restart the parser - ie. support chunked data.
>   or:
>   - Ability to pass in a Boost.Asio-compatible *ReadStream instead of an istream.
> * Ability to store file uploads directly to the filesystem (ie. so you can support uploading huge files).
> 
> Marshall, are you planning to integrate your MIME parser with cpp-netlib?
> 

[ Sorry for the long delay - work jumped up and bit me hard ]

Yes and no. ;-)

I think that the MIME routines (parser, storage, manipulation, and output) should be a separate library from cpp-netlib.
However, I have no problem with cpp-netlib using it, and I will be checking it into the cpp-netlib github repo so that development of the two can continue together.

-- Marshall

P.S.	The reasoning behind this that other libraries in boost might want to consume/create/manipulate MIME messages.

P.P.S.	If you *completely* hate this, let me know and we can hash it out.