RE: [boost] An important question

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-09-07 12:39:05

At 12:06 PM 9/7/2001, Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:

 >Beman Dawes wrote:
 >> I have similar concerns, but also worried that just lumping
 >> all of them into "General use" would quickly render that
 >> category too large.
 >
 >Agree, that can easily happen.
 >
 >> Is there a better way to separate the General and Helper entries into
 >> categories?
 >>
 >
 >I like Doug Gregor's suggestion to put some of the libraries into
 >"Higher-order programming" and "Extension data
 >structures" categories, although there might be a better name for the
 >latter. I've done that, and also a few other refactorings, and the result 

 >is attached to this e-mail - as a material for comments :).

In general I like it.  A few details are worth discussion:

*  The "STL" top-level category should be eliminated IMO (thus Containers, 
Algorithms, Iterators, and Function objects become top-level 
categories).  There really isn't any "STL" anymore as a separate entity, 
and the term causes occasional confusion.

*  The categories should be ordered in some way.  Maybe alphabetically?

--Beman