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Subject: Re: [boost] [disjoint_sets] 1.49.0 docs out-of-date? pending?
From: Giovanni Piero Deretta (gpderetta_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-04-18 10:23:01


On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Daniel James <dnljms_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 17 April 2012 01:21, Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr.
> <jeffrey.hellrung_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> So, aside from what looks like
>> a slight error in the present disjoint_sets docs, what is the purpose of
>> this pending directory? I had never noticed it before and I don't remember
>> stumbling upon a reference to it until now. Looks like it contains a
>> hodgepodge of miscellaneous headers...
>
> Coincidentally, I noticed this about disjoint_sets last week. The
> pending directory was used to store headers for libraries that hadn't
> been reviewed, which seems to be the case for disjoint sets. I'm going
> to remove it from the library list on the site, but the headers should
> remain, as other parts of boost depend on them. I'm not sure what to
> do with the library directory and documentation though. I don't like
> that it has a library directory, but also don't want to delete it and
> I don't know where to put it.  I suppose if we go ahead with
> modularization, then it's probably best to wait until then. I'll
> probably add a note and fix the header in the documentation before the
> next release though.
>

Isn't disjoint set used by Boost.Graph (and written by the same team)?
Maybe the documentation should be under boost.graph, the same way that
phoenix was hosted under spirit for a long time before being reviewed.

-- 
gpd

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