graph (BGL): bad documentation

From: schlumpfi106 (gitarrenschlumpf_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-01 18:10:28

I just tried to use the boost graph library to create a spanning tree 
generation algorithm. After wasting a whole day I gave up and wrote 
all the graph code myself.
I'm quiet upset about the useless online documentation for the graph 
library. Maybe I have to buy the book to be able to use it?
Normally I would rely on some good, instructive examples and start my 
own program by copy-and-paste. Here, there are only a few examples 
and they are either too simple or too specific. Most documentation 
topics provide no examples at all. Sometimes I head to guess through 
the template-loaded headerfiles because there was no documentation.
I failed in creating a graph from a given adjacency matrix. I failed 
in understanding the "interior property" concept. I failed in 
printing a graph and its properties to graphviz.
To the developers: Please, before you implement anything new -- 
document the old things.