Re: [Boost-users] Boost documentation [Was: Re: Getting started with Boost: what did you need to know?]

From: Douglas Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-06 09:25:49

On Mar 3, 2006, at 12:02 AM, Scott Meyers wrote:
> However, a recent mention on this list of QuickBook, which I had  
> never heard of,
> led me via Google to http://www.boost.org/doc/html/boostbook.html,  
> which is in
> the middle the BoostBook David mentions above -- something else I  
> had never
> heard of.  Working my way up the path from there led me to
> http://www.boost.org/doc/html/, which is another listing of  
> libraries in Boost,
> but this one is much shorter than the one above.

That second, shorter list of libraries should be obliterated. I've  
removed it for upcoming Boost versions.

>   Until I read David's post
> above, I was planning to post a question asking about the  
> relationship between
> the two lists of libraries.  Now I'll simply remark that the  
> current situation
> is, in my view, confusing.  Given that the BoostBook is far from  
> complete, what
> is its purpose?

It was originally meant as a replacement for the first list, but  
that's not going to happen.

        Doug