On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 01:08:21PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > > > 1. A libb64 library is copied to src/support/base64. (this is a > > > sourceforge project with a do-whatever-you-want license). Functions > > > are provided to encode/decode a file to/from base64 strings. > > > > QByteArray::fromBase64(). It's even ok to use in support/*... > > This is great. I did not know QT has to/fromBase64 functions.
For some reason Qt's abilities are judged according to what it did in 1993 whereas boost seems to be judged at the 2009 level... Andre' PS: As a bold but reasonably educated guess: We could get rid of 90% of the code in support/* _and_ reduce compile and link times by a third (on top of that what we gained lately _and_ get a decent socket _and_ get a decent concurrency framework if that mindset would undergo a reality check...
