Re: [boost] Naming of Boost.Graph binary

From: Douglas Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-15 07:54:18

On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 07:05 -0500, David Abrahams wrote:
> The binary for Boost.Graph is named differently from all the other
> library binaries; in particular it is called libbgl-viz-xxx rather
> than libboost_graph-xxx.  This is going to complicate the Getting
> Started Guide, and although I understand the desire to make it clear
> that the library is only needed for use with GraphViz, I wonder if
> this nonuniformity is really worth the price.  Can we change the name?
> We can always install aliases on *nix to smooth the transition.

We've meant to do this for quite a while, because that library is
probably going to gain more compiled code along the way. I'm changing
the library name to "boost_graph" in CVS now.

  Cheers,
  Doug