[boost] Rationale for library name convention [Was: Dot in Boost Library Names?]

From: Andreas Huber (ah2003_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-14 18:00:25

David Abrahams wrote:
>    b. Boost decided long ago, for reasons I don't recall, on a
>    convention of writing library names with a period after Boost, as
>    in:
>
>       Boost.Python

In case someone else remembers I'd be interested in the rationale for 
that choice. After all, boost is about C++ with many libraries ending up 
as candidates for standardization, so it strikes me as odd to start 
names with an uppercase letter and to have something else than the 
double colon as a separator.

Regards,

Andreas