This is the HOOPLE collection of C++ classes and C++ based applications.
HOOPLE stands for "Hierarchical Object-Oriented Programming Language
Extensions".  The HOOPLE libraries are largely portable between Unix
and MS-Win32.

Highlights:

  CROMP protocol - supports transmission of objects across the network and
     provides a platform independent method for RPC and other types of
     communication.

  Octopus design pattern - the underpinning of the CROMP protocol.  An octopus
     has an arbitrary number of tentacles (no, not just eight) which are each
     responsible for consuming a different type of object (or datum).

  Fast Templates and Portable Abstractions - the class libraries of HOOPLE
     provide numerous different data structures and programming language
     abstractions (like threads and state machines).  There are also some
     fairly ancient templates (in use since late 80s) which in many cases
     perform faster than their STL analogues.

Prerequisites:

  Software required to compile under Linux:
    curl-devel
    openmotif-devel
    openssl-devel
    wxGTK-devel

  Software required to compiler under MS-windows:
    The free Microsoft compiler should build HOOPLE but it is untested.
    The full version of MS Visual Studio 2005 (version 8) is supported.

Quick Start:

  Run the following commands to bootstrap the HOOPLE libraries, once you
  have downloaded the archive or retrieved them via CVS (assuming that you
  have stored the files in ~/hoople):

    cd ~/hoople
    bash bin/bootstrap_build.sh

  This should create the 'makedep' dependency checking tool and the version
  tagging tool and then go through the rest of the build.

  More information may be available at the official site http://hoople.org