What C++ frameworks provide a complete skeleton, in the fashion of Ruby on Rails?
I think Poco C++ does it, are there other options?
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It's hard to provide a skeleton for client applications, because there is no common functionality like in the case of web applications. Qt does a pretty good job at providing what you might need in a new application though (yes, it does much more than just GUI).
Lukáš Lalinský
2010-01-02 23:48:00
Hi.How well Qt compares to Poco or other libraries?
SyBer
2010-01-02 23:50:52
I don't know, I've never used Poco or another all-in-one kind of framework.
Lukáš Lalinský
2010-01-02 23:52:04
@SyBer: Without specific requirements the answer can only be *"it depends"*
Georg Fritzsche
2010-01-03 00:33:37
Hi.Just looking a good framework to quick-start writing a Linux app.Guess I will need to try Poco to know for sure.
SyBer
2010-01-03 15:44:39
I know I'm biased, but I would just go with Qt. It has both low and high level network classes, low and high level threading classes, database support, xml parsing and processing, scripting language, media player, many small utility classes and everything is well integrated with the GUI part (if you need it).
Lukáš Lalinský
2010-01-03 16:19:40
Question if I don't need any UI capabilities, how much these deter from the main goal?What I liked about Poco that it provides bare minimum, and while Qt seems certainly more invested, I do prefer something leaner.
SyBer
2010-01-04 10:38:24
Qt is an integrated solution, even the QtCore package is quite large. If you only want to use small parts of it, it's probably not worth learnign it. If you want a good suggestion though, you should tell us what do you need, not what do you don't need.
Lukáš Lalinský
2010-01-04 10:48:17
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Besides POCO and Qt, there are only two other mature cross-platform application frameworks suitable for C++ that come to my mind:
WxWidgets and gtk+ (or its C++ binding gtkmm).
Georg Fritzsche
2010-01-03 00:32:56