Geometry Boost List: Re: [geometry] Geometries represented in multiple point types

Subject: Re: [geometry] Geometries represented in multiple point types
From: Andrew Hundt (athundt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-07-16 21:18:05

I know it has been a while since I sent this email originally but is there
a possibility of enabling the point types to be extended in a future
release?

Cheers!
Andrew Hundt

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Andrew Hundt <athundt_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>
> Thanks for your compliments. The system (and the blog-page) were at that
>> time written for a specific usage (handling multi-s together, etc) but
>> indeed they have a more generic ability.
>>
>
> Finding high quality explanations of tag dispatching was something I found
> very difficult. Your post is one of about 3 webpages I've found. Any other
> c++ topic typically has dozens or hundreds of pages explaining how things
> work in many different ways, but for some reason there is very little about
> tag dispatching. That's why I found your post so useful.
>
>
>> Also on those more general places it is indeed possible to use them, we
>> discussed this internally and will apply this in the library. However, it
>> can take a while before it is modified everywhere.
>>
>
> Great, Thanks! I understand that it could take quite some time since it is
> a change to many parts of the library. I was able to create a workaround
> that I'm using until then where I'm only registering the types that are
> most important directly and using wrappers/conversion for the others.
>
> This discussion actually made me think that it may make sense for some of
> the tag dispatch stuff in geometry and some of the other boost libraries to
> be extracted into a tag dispatch library that makes use and integration of
> tag dispatching and related techniques simpler. Perhaps I should email the
> main boost list with the idea.
>
> Cheers!
> Andrew Hundt
>