[Pkg-ace-devel] OO orientation of ACE

[Marek Brudka]

Pierre THIERRY wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I was wondering about the design of some classes of ACE, WRT to the
>object oriented paradigm: isn't it a bit a /bug/ that a class like
>ACE_SOCK_Stream only provides methods that write or read a given number
>of bytes, reading being to a char static buffer? Would it be possible to
>use such classes with STL streams or strings instead?
>
>I'm a very beginner with ACE, but as I'm a studying CS, I'm willing to
>contribute to ACE if it is possible. If such a feature is not yet
>implemented, but possible or, better, desired, I could try to dive into
>ACE's code to add it.
>
Hi,
    pkg-ace-devel list is designated for discussions related with debian 
packaging of ACE/TAO rather
than the details of these libraries. I propose to post your questions to 
ace-users at cse.wustl.edu and I'm sure
your post will be answered.

If about ACE and STL the problem in general is that ACE was (is) 
supported on many platform where
STL was either invalid or even unavalaible. But compilers changed 
greatly in the last 15 years, and many
platforms evolved, hence maybe ACE policy with respect to STL should be 
revised..

Greetings
Marek Brudka