Scott Meyers
Jeff Garland wrote:
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 20:37:32 -0800, Scott Meyers wrote
this suggests that just because a library has been accepted by Boost doesn't mean it will show up in the list at http://boost.org/libs/libraries.htm. Can somebody please explain to me what are probably the basics of what it means to be "in" Boost >
It just means that the TR1 library isn't in the current boost release (1.33.1) that you can download. It's been accepted and is in the mainline repository -- hence it is being regression tested and prepared for the next release.
Now that I think about it some more, I'm confused. My understanding is that a library can be in one of the following states: - In the current distribution. - Accepted but not yet in the current distribution (includes provisionally accepted). - In the process of being reviewed.
There's also: - in the review queue - in a stable state but with no review requested (yet) - in development Only the first one of those last three has any formal status.
But I also hear a lot about libraries being in the Boost sandbox, and I don't really know what that means. Is this explained somewhere?
It's just a repository for code in one of the last 2 states.
If not, can somebody give me an overview of the different ways in which a library can be associated with Boost?
Only an accepted library is a Boost library, but people develop code all the time with the intention of making a Boost library.
In the past, my relationship with Boost was simple: from time to time, I downloaded the current release and went my merry way. Now I understand that the current release doesn't cover everything in Boost, and I'd like to better understand the other relationships that a library can have with Boost.
I'll be covering all this in my SD West talk. Unfortunately, as you know, our talks overlap ;-) -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com