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

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-19 11:40:41

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 03:27:30 +0100, Tobias Schwinger wrote

> >>"C++ Tweak" doesn't quite cut it right for all what's listed in this
section, I think.
> > 
> > 
> > Suggestions are welcome.
> 
> OK, here's how I would structure what Boost's all about for someone 
> who's new to it:
> 
> - components that are direct add-ons to the standard library
>     Array, CompressedPair, DynamicBitset, IO State Savers, Iterators 
> and MultiArray
> 
> - components that deal with functors
>     Bind, Function, Functional, Lambda and Phoenix (currently part 
> of Spirit)
> 
> - components that refine concepts that originally came from C
>     Any, Optional and Variant
> 
> - components that provide abstractions for OS facilities
>     Filesystem, Thread and Timer
> 
> - components that address typical programming problems
>     Crc, MultiIndex, Pool, ProgramOptions and Serialization
> 
> - components for text processing
>     Lexical Cast, Regex, Spirit, StringAlgo, Tokenizer and XPressive
> 
> - components that address mathematical problems
>     everything under boost/math, Graph, Interval, MinMax, Random,
>  Rational, TriBool     and uBLAS
> 
> - components in the domain of programming languages
>     Python and Wave
> 
> - utilities
>     everything under boost/utility, InPlaceFactory, Ref SmartPtr and 
> ValueInitialized
> 
> - components for addding syntactic sugar
>     Assign, Format, Operators, Parameter and Range (well, sort of)
> 
> - components for generic programming / metaprogramming 
>     CallTraits, Concept Check, Enable If, MPL, Preprocessor, 
> StaticAssert, Tuple     and TypeTraits
> 
> - components for portability- and quality assurance
>     Test, Config, Compatiblity and Integer
> 
> .
> 
> Not perfect, but it's a start.

I've taken a shot at a different categorization once upon a time:

http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?OOPSLA2004/Library_Roadmap

That said, I'm not sure I ever heard an answer why Beth considers the current
categories insufficient:

http://www.boost.org/libs/libraries.htm

Jeff