Standardization of Boost libraries

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-05 20:17:07

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?

--Beman

PS:  I'll be out of email contact until Sunday, so won't respond to 
suggestions until next week.