Re: [Boost-users] Getting started with Boost: what did you need toknow?

David Abrahams wrote:

Foster Brereton writes: ...

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There is a *ton* of useful information in the mailing lists, an organic conglomeration of docs that are not based on what the writer of the library thinks you'll need to know but rather what experience has taught us people want to know. The problem is it's a pain to parse through.

The only way to make it less painful would be to add some kind of automation, I guess. Any ideas?

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Even if that's too much work, a FAQ/tips and tricks/searching hints on how to get the most out of the data that is already in existence would have been a big help.

When you find some tricks, let us know! Seriously, you're in a better position to do this than people who don't need to search the mailing list for that kind of answer. When I search, it's usually because I remember a particular conversation and I want to point someone at it.

Hmmm, it would be nice to be able to google the mailing list archives via google-groups. I haven't thought about exactly why, but I seem to find google-groups more productive than the gmane archive search. Jeff Flinn