Re: [boost] range_ex: status?

From: Neil Groves (neil_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-18 04:02:18

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 09:23 +0200, Maik Beckmann wrote:
> Am Dienstag 17 Juni 2008 21:52:09 schrieb Neil Groves:
> > On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 17:47 +0200, Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> > > I'm writing some piece of software working that does a lot of data
> > > structures traversal and that really needed filtering of traversal etc.
> > >
> > > I thought I'd get that from Boost.Range, but I was surprised to see
> > > Boost.Range provides very little: all the good stuff (the range-based
> > > algorithms and adaptors) are in another library, range_ex, which isn't
> > > in the main distribution yet.
> > >
> > > Will this library be included in Boost soon? It's really great.
> >
> > I am the current maintainer of the Boost.RangeEx proposal.
> 
> I wonder about the directory structure of the range_ex.zip in vault:
>   +range_ex
>     +doc
>     +range
>     + test
>     *index.html
> rather than the usual:
>   +boost
>     +range_ex(or range)
>   +libs
>     +doc
>     +test
>     *index.html
> Is this by intention?

The intent is to fit in with whatever else boost does. I do intend to
replace the range folder rather than add a range_ex and have confusion
about which features belong in which library part.

The contents other than the source code do require some work. I will
layout the folders more appropriately by the end of the week. Thank you
for highlighting this error.

> 
> Best,
>  -- Maik

Neil Groves

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