Re: LuaSocket 3.0? (was Re: A proposal for faster userdata type checking)

["Alexander Gladysh" <agladysh@...>]

> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Tim Michals <tcmichals@msn.com> wrote:
>  > FYI There is a good library Boost ASIO for async socket operations already,
>  > supports Linux, Windows, etc. Uses I/O completion ports on WIN32 and epoll
>  > on Linux.
>  >  The next version will have general File I/O.
>
>  sounds good.
>
>  but being part of Boost.... can this lib be used alone? or does it
>  need the whole support framework?  (BTW, wasn't Boost in C++? or am i
>  mixing memories (again) ?)

Boost is definitely C++.

Library (along with dependencies) may be extracted from Boost -- there
is a special tool for it.

Alexander.