From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 28 18:51:41 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DCA3A799 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 18:51:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 979701A88 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 18:51:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WJSWz-0003hV-J5 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:51:33 +0100 Received: from tempe0.bbox.io ([24.249.180.233]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:51:33 +0100 Received: from kevin.bowling by tempe0.bbox.io with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:51:33 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: Kevin Bowling Subject: Re: GSoC proposal: Quirinus C library (qc) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:51:20 -0700 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: tempe0.bbox.io User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/27.0 In-Reply-To: X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 18:56:27 +0000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 18:51:41 -0000 On 2/25/2014 1:24 AM, Dmitry Selyutin wrote: > Hello everyone! > > My name is Dmitry, I'm 22 years old student from Lomonosov Moscow State > University of Russia. This message is addressed mainly to C connoiseurs, > yet I think other people may find it interesting. It's a GSoC proposal. > It's a pity that for language like C we generally don't have something > universal like Boost, so we have to implement some common functions from > scratch or introduce new dependencies. We have Glib, which is used mainly > by Gnome developers (though it is a standalone library) and LGPL-ed, which > is not as liberal as Boost's license. We also have APR, which seems to be a > bit more comprehensive and convenient, yet it is not so well-known as Glib. > I'm in process of implementing a something like Boost for ANSI C (though I > don't pretend this library to share Boost's comprehensiveness). Several > ideas I find useful are: Depending on what kind of development you are doing, either of these make a decent foundation library: * http://facebook.github.io/libphenom/ * https://github.com/joyent/libuv You may want to pick and use one wholesale for any I/O pieces. Regards, Kevin