[wx-discuss] wxSocket rewrite using Boost.Asio

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Thu, 22 May 2008 18:06:49 -0700 "William H. Schultz" <whschultz at cedrus.com> wrote:

WHS> I'm about to undertake a major rewrite of my socket code, and I'm  
WHS> leaning toward reimplementing wxSocket to use Boost.Asio (vs.  
WHS> replacing wxSocket in our code with Boost.Asio).

 Replacing wxSocket with a 3rd party library is definitely very, very
tempting, I'm sure that ASIO is much better than the existing code. The
problem is whether we're going to be able to preserve the existing API
(even if not 100%, but at least 90%).

 However I imagine that not everybody would be happy with requiring Boost
to build wx and, worse, ASIO doesn't seem to support VC6 which we're
apparently not ready to abandon yet. So while I personally would like to do
what you propose provided backwards compatibility could be more or less
preserved, I'm afraid VC6 is going to be the sticking point :-(

 Regards,
VZ