On 5/9/05, Joaquín Mª López Muñoz
Dave Snowdon ha escrito:
I'd like to second what Stefan said. Before I started using boost (only a couple of months back) I'd seen references to it in many articles in the C++ User Journal not to mention a few C++ related books.
Maybe that's a significant difference wrt to the rest of the C++ community: Many programmers are not subscribed to CUJ and do not buy intermediate/advanced books (entry-level references do not usually list Boost.)
I'd like a website that holds the attention of the casual comer. A newbie with just a passing knowledge of what Boost is might be scared by the contents of boost.org and never return back; a more friendly site, with forums and stuff, is a more agreeable place to hang around and eventually decide to try Boost for real.
Please add my vote to this stream of thought. Being a newbie, I'd have appreciated being pointed to this link from the smart_pointers documentation - http://www.cuj.com/documents/s=9481/cuj0408j/0408sutter.html?temp=jf199+SZnZ Giving newbies a comparison between the various well known alternatives, sure makes life easier and probably aids adoption. One other thing is that just reading CUJ articles only gives a superficial understanding of the concepts. It's only when one is actually using the concepts that one gets a deeper understanding. So putting the links/information closer to the documentation is much better IMHO. -shishir -- Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. -- Vernon Law