Re: [boost] [website] Proposal for new page - Libraries By Type

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-18 14:05:08

On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:34:22 -0500, David Abrahams wrote
> Rene Rivera <grafik.list_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
> > Jeff Garland wrote:
> >> On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:35:19 -0500, David Abrahams wrote
> >> 
> >>>> Choose Header only no linking reqd
> >>> Useful, though could be handled with an icon.
> >>>
> >>>> Choose Header only or Autolink
> >>> I don't know what that means.
> >>>
> >>>> Choose those that need building
> >>> Useful.
> >> 
> >> Small glitch with these categories -- 90% of date-time can be used without
> >> building the library now.  Large percentage of the users probably don't need
> >> the lib.  Same with graph.  Last I knew only the graphviz feature required
> >> building a library.  So not sure how you deal with these kind of
complications...
> >
> > Simple. You leave it to the very capable human brains to decide what the 
> > seemingly conflicting information is by providing as much detail as 
> > possible. For example the graph lib would be described as header-only, 
> > needs-building, and autolink.

Ok, I'm not sure how putting a library in all 3 categories will work -- it
will at least require explanation of how this can happen, but mostly I would
think it would be confusing to new users.
 
> Nothing in the graph lib needs building.

From

http://www.boost.org/libs/graph/doc/read_graphviz.html

  Building the GraphViz Readers

  To use the GraphViz readers, you will need to build and link 
  against the "bgl-viz" library. The library can be built by 
  following the Boost Jam Build Instructions for the 
  subdirectory libs/graph/build.

Jeff