RE: [boost] An important question

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-09-05 15:43:35

At 09:52 AM 9/5/2001, Philip Nash wrote:

 >I think the original complaint (if that is the word) is that there are so
 >many libraries in boost already (and the trend is for there to be more 
and
 >more) that it is  difficult to sift through and find the ones that are
 >personally applicable or useful.
 >In particular there are already a number of reasonably "domain specific"
 >(in
 >some sense of the expression) libraries, the graph library being a case 
in
 >point.
 >
 >Perhaps now is the time for someone, or some people, to take a look at 
the
 >organisation of boost as a whole. Nothing too major, but just a sensible
 >grouping of libraries, maybe in a hierarchical fashion ...

One very simple way to do this, without impacting anything else, is simply 
reorganize the presentation of libraries on 
http://www.boost.org/libs/libraries.htm

See the attached for a first cut.

A final version would include a little table-of-contents at the beginning, 
and might also still include the purely alphabetic list in a separate 
section.

Comments?  Does this address enough of the concerns to make it worth doing?

--Beman