Re: [Monotone-devel] IPv6 addresses and ports (and netxx)

[Zack Weinberg]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Matthew Nicholson <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>  Perhaps we should start a branch to replace netxx with boost::asio[0]
>  which is similar in design and functionality and maintained upstream
>  (and will be a part of the next major boost release).

I'm all for having a maintained network library, but I have two
concerns: (1) we need to make sure this doesn't drag external boost
libraries back into the build, and (2) it uses OpenSSL for crypto,
which is license-incompatible with GPL.  [And at least partially
redundant with Botan.]

zw