Re: [boost] Technical session at the October C++ meeting?

From: Howard Hinnant (hinnant_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-08-14 17:25:11

On Tuesday, August 14, 2001, at 05:52  PM, Beman Dawes wrote:

> * What libraries would the Boost membership like to see submitted?
>
> * What are the criteria (as seen by Boost, and as seen by the 
> committee)?
>
> * How do we package (or batch) the submissions? One big submission? 
> Lots of
> little ones?
>
> My own feeling is that we ought to start with the most mature Boost
> libraries, submitted in batched proposals somehow related to
> dependencies.  Individual libraries would be too small a granularity;
> related libraries should proceed together through the process.  But too 
> big
> a proposal will choke the Library Working Group's ability to digest new
> stuff.
>
> Comments?  Anyone like to try to put together a preliminary list of
> libraries?

Speaking as one who will be one of the reviewers on the committee, I 
would like to see smaller submissions, with dependent libs submitted 
after independent libs (by after I mean at least towards the rear of a 
batch proposal).  If pertinent for an independent lib, it would be good 
to know what following libs are dependent upon it.

I also don't feel the need to see all of the boost submissions at once.  
I would be perfectly happy looking at a few now, and maybe a few more in 
6 months.

I would like to see the type_traits lib submitted (I have an obvious 
bias on that one).  I believe it is both independent, and that other 
libs will depend on it (though I'm not sure which ones).  This one may 
also have some core issues (is_union?).

-Howard