Re: [boost] New Library Proposals

From: Manfred Doudar (manfred.doudar_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-06 22:28:04

Lemings, Eric B. wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'd like to solicit interest in the following brief proposals for
>inclusion in the Boost library.
>
>cla (Command-Line Arguments) - A generic C++ framework for parsing
>command-line arguments.  The library design would be based on the popt
>(http://www.rpm.org/dark_corners/popt/) library.
>
>uom (Units Of Measure) - A generic C++ framework for arithmetic
>calculations and conversions between different units of measure.  The
>library design would be based on The Units Of Measure Library
>(http://tuoml.sourceforge.net/).
>  
>
You might also want to look at the extensible UCAR udunits C-library for 
ideas/possibilities et al.  The benifit here is that it's extensible by 
users using a text database of relations.  On the downside, it's 
cumbersome to use.  Nonetheless, here's a URL of the manpage:

   http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/udunits/man.php?udunits+3

This library can be downloaded with source code.

>Questions and comments welcomed.
>
>Thanks,
>Eric.
>  
>

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Manfred Doudar
MetOcean Engineers