Re: [boost] Request for endorsements for mp11

Subject: Re: [boost] Request for endorsements for mp11
From: Vicente J. Botet Escriba (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-05-24 11:12:54

Le 22/05/2017 à 20:47, Vicente J. Botet Escriba via Boost a écrit :
> Le 22/05/2017 à 13:43, Peter Dimov via Boost a écrit :
>> Would anyone be so kind as to formally endorse mp11 as a candidate 
>> for Boost?
>>
>> As a reminder, mp11 is a simple C++11 metaprogramming library, 
>> available at
>>
>>    https://github.com/pdimov/mp11/
>>
>> CSS-less documentation can be viewed at
>>
>>    https://rawgit.com/pdimov/mp11/master/doc/html/mp11.html
> I endorse mp11 even if don't share all the design decisions. I believe 
> that there is a place for other meta-programming libraries in Boost, 
> mp11 would be a good candidate. The library that users will find more 
> useful will survive, and the others will dead. We need more 
> competition in Boost.
>
> It would be interesting however to see what all of them have in common 
> (if there is something). Some kind of interaction between the 
> MetaProgramming libraries will be welcome.
>
> If there are other MetaProgramming libraries ready for submission it 
> will be extra to have a shared review.
> I suggest the authors of these MetaProgramming libraries, wanting a 
> better MetaProgramming library in Boost, to contact each other 
> (copying the review wizards) in order have a common review.
> I suspect that from the 5 MetaProgramming libraries (mp11, metal, 
> meta, brigand and kvasir)  that are circulating, not all the authors 
> want his library in Boost, so the problem will be reduced.
>
>
 > Vicente, since last time, I made some changes that moved the library 
in a
 > direction you might like. Namely, I added mp_bind, mp_bind_front and
 > mp_bind_back (and removed bind_front functionality from mp_quote), 
and I'm
 > gradually adding _q "overloads" that take quoted metafunctions.

Hi Peter.

I don't know why I'm not receiving most of the mails you are sending 
lately. This concerns also other threads.

Thanks for the info. I'll take a look.

Vicente