Comments on: Why POCO http://pocoproject.org/blog/?p=4 News and discussion for the POCO Community Sun, 26 May 2013 14:39:39 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Andrew marlow http://pocoproject.org/blog/?p=4&cpage=1#comment-14 Andrew marlow Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:11:00 +0000 http://appinf.com/poco/blog/?p=4#comment-14 Just to add to Guenter's comment; ACE tries to compile across the known universe, including ancient crappy compilers, and this has led, over the years, to loads of macros being sprinkled throughout the code. It also complicates their build system. POCO seems to be relatively macro-free and it would be nice to keep it that way. This might mean a slight restriction on the supported compilation environments. Just to add to Guenter’s comment; ACE tries to compile across the known universe, including ancient crappy compilers, and this has led, over the years, to loads of macros being sprinkled throughout the code. It also complicates their build system. POCO seems to be relatively macro-free and it would be nice to keep it that way. This might mean a slight restriction on the supported compilation environments.

]]> By: guenter http://pocoproject.org/blog/?p=4&cpage=1#comment-13 guenter Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:54:25 +0000 http://appinf.com/poco/blog/?p=4#comment-13 Neville, thanks for your comments. Regarding VC6, please see Andrew's comment "crappy state of vendor compilers". So, no VC6 support, at least for now. Anyway, you could try your luck with VC6 yourself, many parts of POCO will probably work. However, we don't want to mess up the code base with support for older, non-conforming compilers. Neville, thanks for your comments. Regarding VC6, please see Andrew’s comment “crappy state of vendor compilers”. So, no VC6 support, at least for now. Anyway, you could try your luck with VC6 yourself, many parts of POCO will probably work. However, we don’t want to mess up the code base with support for older, non-conforming compilers.

]]> By: Andrew Marlow http://pocoproject.org/blog/?p=4&cpage=1#comment-12 Andrew Marlow Sun, 16 Jul 2006 19:41:02 +0000 http://appinf.com/poco/blog/?p=4#comment-12 I agree. Indeed IMO there is a need for an alternative to Boost/ACE. Boost still has problems building everywhere due to the crappy state of vendor compilers. Also the build system seems to be in a high state of flux. ACE is clunky but mature and seems to have been ported everywhere. I prefer it to boost even though boost is cleaner in many ways. But both leave me slightly dis-satisified. I hope that POCO will prove to be a better alternative (for me at least). I agree. Indeed IMO there is a need for an alternative to Boost/ACE. Boost still has problems building everywhere due to the crappy state of vendor compilers. Also the build system seems to be in a high state of flux. ACE is clunky but mature and seems to have been ported everywhere. I prefer it to boost even though boost is cleaner in many ways. But both leave me slightly dis-satisified. I hope that POCO will prove to be a better alternative (for me at least).

]]> By: Neville Franks http://pocoproject.org/blog/?p=4&cpage=1#comment-11 Neville Franks Sat, 15 Jul 2006 09:22:22 +0000 http://appinf.com/poco/blog/?p=4#comment-11 Congratulations on putting POCO out into the wild. It is a breath of fresh air to see quality documentation, a well designed and great looking web site etc. for a programming library of any sort, and even more so for something that is open source. I wish you well on your travels with POCO. One quick question. I've downloaded the source which includes MS VC7 and 8 Projects, but not VC6. Does this mean POCO won't work with VC6? Congratulations on putting POCO out into the wild. It is a breath of fresh air to see quality documentation, a well designed and great looking web site etc. for a programming library of any sort, and even more so for something that is open source.

I wish you well on your travels with POCO.

One quick question. I’ve downloaded the source which includes MS VC7 and 8 Projects, but not VC6. Does this mean POCO won’t work with VC6?

]]> By: guenter http://pocoproject.org/blog/?p=4&cpage=1#comment-10 guenter Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:11:34 +0000 http://appinf.com/poco/blog/?p=4#comment-10 Thank you, Alex, very well said. This also reminds me of a famous quote by Scott Robert Ladd, on Java and C++: "Just because very few people can fly a Space Shuttle doesn't mean we shouldn't have spacecraft. Some of us are big boys, and we can handle C++ just fine, thank you." Thank you, Alex, very well said.

This also reminds me of a famous quote by Scott Robert Ladd, on Java and C++:
“Just because very few people can fly a Space Shuttle doesn’t mean
we shouldn’t have spacecraft. Some of us are big boys, and we can
handle C++ just fine, thank you.”

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