So, finally, I have delivered. Something. Don’t get me wrong, the thing runs, but there’s more to do before a release. There’s a TODO list here. Briefly, here are the issues: – I am not sure what exactly to do with Attributes and they are all over the original Java API, so I have improvised […]
Inspired by Christmas spirit and Paschal’s threat to go Java, I have actually forced myself to put in some work into servlet container today and align it with the Poco (I still had ancient namespace macros in code). I hope to have SF project and code out some time next week. I’m still undecided on […]
POCO 1.2.7 is available.* This is mostly a bugfix release fixing all bugs and inconveniences reported on Sourceforge and elsewhere. Changes: Poco::File: fixed root directory handling fixed UUIDGenerator documentation clarified Application::setUnixOptions() documentation fixed SF# 1597022: Signed/unsigned warning in StringTokenizer::operator[] fixed SF# 1598601: Message::op= leaks fixed SF# 1605960: PatternFormatter crashes on custom property fixed SF# 1605950: […]
‘Guilty as charged’ is the verdict. I owe an apology to the audience for selling vapourware. I got stuck with Data, RecordSet, ODBC connector & co, so the servlet engine got pushed on the back burner for the ump-th time. But I’m getting ready to give it a shot and push it out the door […]
Wes Peters has created and will be maintaining the FreeBSD Port of POCO. Thank you, Wes! Now that we have a FreeBSD Port, but still no Linux packages: any volunteers who want to maintain RPMs or dpkgs for POCO? Your help is appreciated!
Hi all, just a quick note to keep you informed what’s going on in the Poco World and what will be included in the next Poco beta: A feature that quite some people asked for are static builds. And thanks to Paschal we have that now (for VS7.1, I’m currently doing VS8.0) I spent a […]
A fresh Bjarne Stroustrup’s interview .
A first beta of the upcoming Poco 1.3 release is available for download. Release Notes: ========================== – added HashMap, HashSet classes – added Poco::Tuple – added AbstractCache::getAllKeys(), improved performance of the get operation – fixed AbstractCache::size() to do cache replacement before returning the size – added additional match() method to RegularExpression and documented the fact […]
PocoDoc, the documentation generator used by POCO, can now be found in the SVN sandbox. A short HowTo that explains how to build and run PocoDoc can be found in the Wiki.
Neal Gafter laments about generics in Java. It is interesting to read various opinions on Java “generics” ranging from “they spoiled the language”, to “let’s (re)do it right”. Sigh. Someone please send Java “visionaries” back to future .