[Rcpp-devel] boost::asio

[Romain Francois]

On 02/13/2010 07:50 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 13 February 2010 at 19:28, Romain Francois wrote:
> | On 02/13/2010 07:21 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> |>  On 13 February 2010 at 18:08, Romain Francois wrote:
> |>  | Anyone familiar with boost asio here ?
> |>  | http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/doc/html/boost_asio.html
> |>
> |>  I have not used asio but using more of boost is always a good idea. Would add
> |>  another (weak) build dependency though.
> |
> | What do mean by "weak" ?
>
> Oh, sorry: 'headers only, no libs' for most of Boost and the headers are not
> uncommon.  But it will be a hurdle for some people. Worth taking though...


Ah. But not this one. This is one that is not header only.


> |>  | Now that new Rcpp is getting stable, I'd like to use it. One potential
> |>  | use is making some sort of web server with R callbacks, and I was
> |>  | thinking maybe boost asio was the way to go about it.
> |>  |
> |>  | The latest version of R already has a webserver included, which powers
> |>  | the new R help system (see latest R Journal issue), but it is not
> |>  | flexible enough (yet) ...
> |>
> |>  Let's be patient and resist to urge to add a server in a package :)
> |>
> |>  Dirk
> |
> | But it sounds like fun ...
>
> Let's not get tempted :)

I guess you're right ...

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