Re: [boost] Boost.DLL formal review is ongoing

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.DLL formal review is ongoing
From: Klaim - Joël Lamotte (mjklaim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-07-14 07:37:33

On 14 July 2015 at 12:37, Bjorn Reese <breese_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> If we are open to bikeshedding, then I suggest that the library should
> not be named after the subject it operates on (whether we call them
> dynamic link libraries or shared objects), but rather on the
> functionality it provides.
>
> The purpose of the library is to load and find symbols in the subject,
> so something like Boost.Loader looks like a better alternative to me
> (knowing full well that it does not load arbitrary files.)
>
>
>
In that case, "symbol loader" or "shared library loader" would be more
fitting than "loader" which
could be about other domains.
Personally I don't care much about the name of the library in this case
because almost all the names evoked here seems fine to me,
event the platform-specific evocation ones.

Note: Boost.SharedObject is a name already used by Artyom's (cppcms)
non-boost library which was suggested several time around here but not
submitted.