Re: [coders] Poco C++ Libraries

[Matthew Hannigan <mlh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 03:58:15PM +1100, Andre Pang wrote:
> Hullo all,
> 
> Just thought I'd share a surprise discovery with you: I was hunting  
> around for a couple of libraries when I came across an excellent set  
> of C++ libraries that I'd never heard of before:
> 
>   http://appinf.com/poco/info/index.html
> 
> It's impressively comprehensive, is reasonably well documented, has  
> decent APIs from what I've seen so far, and it's very cross- 
> platform.  I'm surprised I haven't heard of it before considering how  
> good quality it appears to be.  It's not quite up there in Boost's  
> league, but it is very, very good.  (Their URL/URI class actually  
> attempts to be vaguely RFC-compliant, for instance, and they have a  
> pretty large set of classes, including a cross-platform shared  
> library loader.)
> 
> Anyway, I hope it's useful for somebody else besides myself!

Looks very good indeed, thanks Andre.

It's under a boost license.  I note that they keep
some stuff proprietry though e.g. Net_SSL.

I was thumbing through my copy of the C++ cookbook
just yesterday and thinking how different it was
from the other cookbooks;  the C++ one implements
almost no application level stuff; it's less of
a cookbook and more of an C++ "advice by example" book.

This POCO library is what the cookbook should have
been!



Matt