Re: [boost] Proposal: Identifying libraries

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-12-16 13:05:13

At 11:15 AM 12/16/2002, Douglas Gregor wrote:

 >On Monday 16 December 2002 09:17 am, Beman Dawes wrote:
 >> I'd like to propose changing that (particularly for headers) to:
 >>
 >> // See http://www.boost.org/library-name for documentation.
 >
 >I assume you mean "http://www.boost.org/libs/library-name"?
 >
 >> and require that it be the first instance of "http://www.boost.org/" in 
a
 >> source file.
 >>
 >> That will make it easy to associate a header with the library it 
belongs
 >> to, and may also help users reach documentation quickly.
 >>
 >> Comments?
 >>
 >> --Beman
 >
 >Sounds good. I think we should try to do the conversion automatically, at 

 >least for all files in subdirectories (e.g., the file boost/xxx/yyy.hpp
 >would be assumed to be a part of library xxx if libs/xxx exists) and for
 >files boost/xxx.hpp where there is a library in libs/xxx. We don't want
 >to do this conversion by hand :)

Good point! I'll whack together a little program to do the above (after 
waiting awhile to make sure such a change is acceptable to others.)

--Beman