The library in its current form was started as part of the Google Summer of
Code (GSoC '07) - in my case a union of Google
collaborating with Boost!
People involved in the development of this library:
-
Christopher Kohlhoff: for crafting Boost.Asio, which does most of
the hard stuff. Chris mentored me through the GSoC (no mean feat!), without
which this library would be neither in your hands, nor modelled the way it
is.
-
Phil Endecott: for offering use-cases and
encouragement at the start of the GSoC and for coming up with many further
suggestions (such as the Client concept) in the months since.
-
Peter Simons: His FastCGI library libfastcgi provided initial motivation
for this library. Also his article "FastCGI
- The Forgotten Treasure" is an good read for those not sold
on FastCGI.
Also many thanks to:
-
Jeff Dunlap: for help with testing and for
pushing the idea of supporting HTML templates. Jeff provided an online version
of the amortization example which I aimed to replicate using this library
and Google.cTemplate.
-
Jeff Garland: for organising access to Boost's
SVN repo, being involved in early discussion and probably being involved
in my SoC application having any chance. :)
-
Christian Henning: for help testing early
code.
The Boost mailing lists: for so many helpful
and objective comments about the library.
Discussions on the Boost lists included:
- Martin Wille
- Mathias Gaunard
- Peter Foley
- 'Jose'
- 'Shams'
- Peter Dimov
- Simon Richter
- Cris Frey
- Sohail Somani
- Jean-Christophe Roux
forgetting everyone's names: Apologies
to anyone missed... tell me, please!
