Re: [boost] [docs] icons for common questions

From: David Greene (greened_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-21 20:17:45

Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
> David Abrahams wrote:
> 
> 
>>Thorsten Ottosen <tottosen_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
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>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Maybe it was an idea to have icons to show
>>>
>>>- on the list of libraries
>>>- in the opening page of each library
>>>
>>>that quickly reminds the user that
>>>
>>>- the library supports serialization
>>>- the library supports no exceptions
>>>
>>>Too pop-smart?
>>
>>
>>
>>Sounds nifty to me.  Small keyword text below each icon or maybe
>>tooltips, plus click-through to find out what it means in detail,
>>would make this really useful.
> 
> 
> 
> One other relevant categories:
> 
> - header only
> - rtti required

This is a really good idea.  I'll suggest some others:

- thread-safe (in the re-entrancy/mutex sense)

and because it just came up as I'm learning Boost.Statechart:

- protects shared data (i.e. no worries about cache coherence issues)

I'm not familiar with Boost.Typeinfo yet but support for that seems
a similar thing to serialization.

                       -Dave