Re: Review: Boost Test Library

From: williamkempf_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-02-16 10:33:47

--- In boost_at_y..., williamkempf_at_h... wrote:
> --- In boost_at_y..., "Mark Rodgers" <mark.rodgers_at_c...> wrote:
> > From: <williamkempf_at_h...>
> > --- In boost_at_y..., Jens Maurer <Jens.Maurer_at_g...> wrote:
> > > > The review for Beman Dawes' proposal of a Boost Test 
Library...

(For those who received my previous response, I'm sorry, I 
accidentally responded to the wrong post.)

> The Boost Thread Library was the first to be called the BTL, 
> regardless of the chronology of acceptance ;).
> 
> Seriously, though, someone else coined the acronym, not myself.  
I'm 
> not married to any name or acronym at this point, though there will 
> be a lot of documentation to change if we go by a different 
> name/acronym at this point, and it's just going to get worse.  
So... 
> if anyone has a different name, or thinks that we should stick with 
> Boost Thread Library but not use the acronym BTL, speak up now so I 
> can proactively avoid work in the future :).

Someone just pointed out to me in e-mail that the acronym BTL is also 
currently used by the Bioinformatics Template Library 
(http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/~classlib/bioinf/BTL99.html). So it seems 
that at least the acronym needs to be dropped (though I expect people 
will try to re-apply it frequently if the name remains "Boost Thread 
Library"... the three words lend themselves to easily to usage as a 
TLA).  So, I'll still entertain recommendations for another name, but 
I'll immediately remove BTL from the draft documentation I have.

Bill Kempf