Re: [boost] [review][beast] Review of Beast starts today : July 1 - July 10

On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Phil Endecott via Boost wrote:

I think this is an important point - on what platforms is Beast actually useful in practice?

Wherever Boost.Asio is useful.

How much of Beast is useful without ASIO?

Not very much, although you can use beast::http::serializer and beast::http::basic_parser using only which is pretty small, self contained, and knows nothing about sockets. There is a point of contention here, one reviewer thinks that buffer.hpp should not be a dependency. However that discussion is stalled due to non-technical reasons. Realistically speaking if you are trying to use Beast without Asio (modulo buffer.hpp as stated above) you aren't going to get very far at all.