RE: [boost] An important question

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-09-06 12:05:19

At 11:50 AM 9/6/2001, Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:

 >Beman Dawes wrote:
 >> See the attached for a first cut.
 >
 >It looks good, and it's certainly an improvement over the plain 
alphabetic
 >list (which still can be useful too). One thing that concerns me, though, 

 >is classification such libraries as 'tuple', 'function', 'functional' and
 >'compose' into "Helpers" as opposite to "General use" category. For
 >example, to me 'any' library doesn't seem to be in any way more "general
 >purpose" than 'boost::function' or 'tuple', and I would prefer to see all
 >of those in the same category.

I have similar concerns, but also worried that just lumping all of them 
into "General use" would quickly render that category too large.

Is there a better way to separate the General and Helper entries into 
categories?

--Beman

Incidentally, there is no law that says a library couldn't appear in more 
than one category.  Remember that the objective isn't the categories 
themselves, but to help users locate libraries which might meet their need.