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Re: TBOX: A Multi-Platform C Library

#11

Post by andrey_utkin » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 8:14 PM UTC

Silly project of unhealthy mind.

Seems the author has put together random available libs implementations and "branded" them. That's all.

Which implementations were used? Which versions? What are the changes done to them? Which backdoors were added? :)

It's like this: http://img.tyt.by/n/it/0e/a/91202j.jpg

Re: TBOX: A Multi-Platform C Library

#12

Post by huhtenberg » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 8:21 PM UTC

andrey_utkin wrote: post #11

Silly project of unhealthy mind. Seems the author has put together random available libs implementations and "branded" them. That's all. Which implementations were used? Which versions? What are the changes done to them? Which backdoors were added? :) It's like this: http://img.tyt.by/n/it/0e/a/91202j.jpg

> random available libs

What libs are these specifically?

Re: TBOX: A Multi-Platform C Library

#13

Post by andrey_utkin » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 8:26 PM UTC

huhtenberg wrote: post #12

andrey_utkin wrote: post #11

Silly project of unhealthy mind. Seems the author has put together random available libs implementations and "branded" them. That's all. Which implementations were used? Which versions? What are the changes done to them? Which backdoors were added? :) It's like this: http://img.tyt.by/n/it/0e/a/91202j.jpg

> random available libs What libs are these specifically?

libc, libm, some boost pieces (asio, probably some more), zlib...

That's just from reviewing front pages of github repo and official site.

Re: TBOX: A Multi-Platform C Library

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Post by wyldfire » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 8:29 PM UTC

It's great that someone took the time to curate the list. But maybe it'd be better as one of those awesome-X style list of actual repos. With all of these libraries distributed as a mega-lib, it just seems like a bit of a junk drawer.

Re: TBOX: A Multi-Platform C Library

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Post by noselasd » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 8:37 PM UTC

andrey_utkin wrote: post #13

huhtenberg wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> random available libs What libs are these specifically?

libc, libm, some boost pieces (asio, probably some more), zlib... That's just from reviewing front pages of github repo and official site.

Which means you didn't really read the source code, this is not a collection of other available libraries. Boost ASIO is C++, this is a C library, they only share the name as they're both implementing async IO. Code in the libc/libm folder isn't a rip of from somewhere else.

Re: TBOX: A Multi-Platform C Library

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Post by huhtenberg » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 8:42 PM UTC

andrey_utkin wrote: post #13

huhtenberg wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> random available libs What libs are these specifically?

libc, libm, some boost pieces (asio, probably some more), zlib... That's just from reviewing front pages of github repo and official site.

Yeah, excellent.

You may want to read some code before making derogatory comments based on basic name collisions. asio doesn't imply boost, nor is there a single libm out there.

Re: TBOX: A Multi-Platform C Library

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Post by onetwotree » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 8:43 PM UTC

I haven't taken much time to read the source, but it might be a good idea to break some pieces off into their own repos, perhaps with a required 'tbox_core' type lib.

Otherwise it's...eminently useful, and boring in a good way.

Re: TBOX: A Multi-Platform C Library

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Post by yoklov » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 8:44 PM UTC

dingdingdang wrote: post #6

Nice straight forwardness in this lib - love the async stuff for url downloads/access.. its modern.. its C.. its confusingly normal!

Thought so too, but then I took a look at the code.

Re: TBOX: A Multi-Platform C Library

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Post by eatonphil » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 8:48 PM UTC

yoklov wrote: post #18

dingdingdang wrote: post #6

Nice straight forwardness in this lib - love the async stuff for url downloads/access.. its modern.. its C.. its confusingly normal!

Thought so too, but then I took a look at the code.

Anything in particular you could point out?

Re: TBOX: A Multi-Platform C Library

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Post by warmwaffles » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 11:02 PM UTC

andrey_utkin wrote: post #13

huhtenberg wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> random available libs What libs are these specifically?

libc, libm, some boost pieces (asio, probably some more), zlib... That's just from reviewing front pages of github repo and official site.

And this is an issue why? Some of us don't want a boost dependency.