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

From: Beth Jacobson (bethj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-19 13:01:51

David Abrahams wrote:
> Aleksey Gurtovoy <agurtovoy_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>>All other issues aside, I find the "Cutting-Edge Libraries" group
>>ill-conceived and bordering on the edge of offensive (for the library
>>author).
> 
> 
> I agree, but I think we've all decided that category is going away
> (right?)
> 

I thought the objections were to the original name (bleeding edge), 
which I changed to cutting edge to sound less experimental. Is the 
problem still with the name, or is it with the category description, or 
the category itself?

The intent of the page is to encourage people to explore the Boost 
libraries. I tried to create categories that would appeal to various 
interests and ability levels and that would give a broad overview of the 
sorts of things Boost has to offer. I thought that support for the 
latest programming concepts and techniques would have been of real 
interest to some. If that's a mistake, I could eliminate that category 
altogether and move its contents to "Specialized Libraries". If the 
categorization is sound but the name/description is bad, perhaps someone 
could suggest something better. Most of the libraries in that group are 
beyond my own skill level and experience, so it's difficult for me to 
describe the group well.