[Boost-users] Re: units library

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-23 04:58:09

Dan Dimerman wrote:
> Jeff Garland wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:33:18 -0700, Chris Goller wrote
>>
>>> I've been looking around for a unit conversion library.  I've seen
>>> some on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/ but am wondering
>>> if any have been put into boost release yet.
>>
>>
>> Nope, none are in a boost release.  And I think that the most active
>> author has recently abandoned his effort :-(  So I'm afraid you
>> shouldn't expect anything soon.
>>
>> Jeff
> Are you referring to something like this:
>
> boost_1_32_0/libs/mpl/doc/tutorial/dimensional-analysis.html

I believe he's refering to Andy Little's pqs library. Andy announced recently
that he wasn't going to propose it for review, but he didn't say why. I never
looked at it.

Matthias Schabel also was working on a physical quantities library in the last
year or so, but I haven't heard anything recently.

David and Aleksey appear to discuss dimencional anaylsis in some detail here:
http://www.artima.com/cppsource/metafunctions.html, but I don't know how close
this comes to a full-fledged dimensional anaylsis library.

Jonathan