Re: [boost] 5 Observations - My experience with the boost libraries

Subject: Re: [boost] 5 Observations - My experience with the boost libraries
From: Tom Brinkman (reportbase2007_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-24 00:49:04

> We are getting closer to the crux of all this...

Good questions.

Since I put myself on the line here and started this controversial
thread, let me see if I can come up with some examples from my own
experience.

Like Emil said there may not be any real actionable items here.

However, contrary to what Johanthon says, I do feel that the views I
have expressed represent a sufficiently large number of developers and
that they are correctly expressed on this forum.

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:05 PM, David Bergman
<David.Bergman_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Mar 23, 2010, at 11:53 PM, Jonathan Franklin wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:35 PM, David Bergman
>> <David.Bergman_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>> What changes would we need to make to Boost in order to stay relevant (to that C/C++ mixed reality)? Would it require us to provide C wrappers for all our libraries?
>>
>> My hunch is that the C wrappers are really only useful for exporting
>> boost functionality to other languages.  IME, it's usually the lowest
>> level pieces that are written in C (or asm), and get aggregated into a
>> C++ compilation unit.
>>
>> I would be curious to know if there are current use cases for
>> importing boost into C compilation units.  Anyone?
>
> We are getting closer to the crux of all this...
>
> Tom has to explain if he wants Boost to:
>
> 1. still provide C++ interfaces, and thus only usable from C++ compilation units, but make those interfaces - or perhaps wrappers of existing interfaces - a bit less modern, to accommodate the lower C++ skill levels of developers in that C/C++ mix (that he talks about); or
>
> 2. provide C interfaces so separate compilation units can link with C units.
>
> Which is it?
>
> /David
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