[Boost-users] Boost contents

From: Foster, Gareth (gareth.foster_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-23 06:09:41

Hello,

Just a general interest question which came to me reading the email below.

Are there any critera for what can/can't be added to boost? Somebody was
telling me about ACE recently, which apprently attempts to wrap POSIX with
C++. It looks like there is overlap there with Boost. Does Boost have some
similar aim, to be a set of libraries covering a certain anlge, or is it
litterally a collection of useful code?

Would something like a GUI abstraction system be considered? Or is the limit
perhaps things that could resonably make it into the STL?

Hope that isn't off topic,

Thanks!

Gaz

-----Original Message-----
From: boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]
[mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Turkanis
Sent: 23 December 2004 09:58
To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
Subject: [Boost-users] Re: units library

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

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