Jeff Flinn wrote:
Zeljko Vrba wrote:
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:04:00PM +0200, Roland Bock wrote:
Personally, I think, that the naming of libraries is not just a minor issue. The name of a library not only helps potential users to find it. Had you looked at the bottom of this page
you would have seen that the library is dedicated to Joel's (passed away) daughter Phoenix. Personally, I think that the naming is rather irrelevant when all libraries are anyway listed on the boost main page:
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0
together with a short description.
And if we're going to start nitpicking, there's already a bunch of very uninformative names (Any, Assign, Enable If, Function, GIL, Iostreams [like, what the hell, isn't this already in the standard library], etc.)
I think naming was not an issue when the website had a "Category" view as well as the alphabetical listing. Spirit, regex, xpressive were under the text processing category... so I knew to look at these and see which met my needs. The new SortBy while nice, is lacking in this regard.
For some reason, it's still there (if you google it): http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/libs/libraries.htm But I can't seem to get to it from the boost site. Regards, -- Joel de Guzman http://www.boostpro.com http://spirit.sf.net