Re: [boost] Summer of Code 2008

From: Doug Gregor (dgregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-03 08:51:52

On Mar 2, 2008, at 6:31 PM, Andrew Sutton wrote:

>> If folks have ideas for potential projects then now would be a good
>> time to
>> start thinking about them - that way we can apply to Google to be a
>> mentoring organisation with a good selection of ideas already up and
>> running.
>
> I've been thinking about Boost.Graph v2. I was hoping to finish the
> work that I started in the fall. Of course, I was hoping for a little
> more free reign with the interfaces for this work - source
> compatibility won't be high on my list of priorities in my proposal.

So long as Visual C++ 6/7 compatibility isn't also high on your list  
of priorities, go for it :)

Half of the ugliness of the BGL implementation is in the workarounds  
needed to deal with compilers that can't handle class template partial  
specialization.

        - Doug