Re: [boost] Standardization of Boost libraries

From: Fernando Cacciola (fcacciola_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-06 14:04:36

----- Original Message -----
From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 10:17 PM
Subject: [boost] Standardization of Boost libraries

> Ouch!  This just arrived from Clark Nelson:
>
>  >This is your reminder that the deadline for the pre-Curaçao mailing is
> one
>  >week from today, 2002-03-12. Acceptable document formats include plain
>  >text, HTML and PDF. Please contact me with questions, and for numbers to
>  >apply to your documents.
>
> That means it is time to think again about what additional Boost libraries
> should be submitted to the committee for possible inclusion in the
upcoming
> TR. (Because they will be presented but not voted on, we don't actually
> have to have stuff ready in a week.  But the notice is a wake up call to
> start getting ready for April's committee meeting.)
>
> The following Boost libraries are already on the committee's proposal
list:
>
> 1) Header <cstdint>.  (Tabled pending more comprehensive proposal from
Bill
> Plauger.)
> 2) Type Traits.
> 3) Regular Expressions.
> 4) Smart Pointers.
> 5) Random Numbers.
> 6) Rational Numbers.
> 7) Threads.
>
> How about suggestions for perhaps six more Boost libraries to add to the
> list?  Which of the remaining libraries are most "widely useful" for
> example?
>
the tuples library, no doubt...

Fernando Cacciola
Sierra s.r.l.
fcacciola_at_[hidden]
www.gosierra.com