On 5 January 2015 at 14:10, Peter Dimov <lists@pdimov.com> wrote:
I've put a library list generated from the meta/libraries.json files, at:
We're already dealing with this on the website, this is how the documentation list is generated. The full data is at: http://www.boost.org/doc/libraries.xml Which was set up by Rene years ago. It includes libraries with no existing metadata file. Nowadays it's maintained by a mix of php scripts and manual editing. The way it stores historical data is awkward because I shoehorned it into existing code, so it'll probably be easier to handle if I write a little web service to get a release's details in json format.
Library authors may wish to take a look at their library entry and see if they're happy with it. What I've noticed so far is that many libraries are missing the boost-version (First Release) entry, and that Config is missing authors for some reason.
Historical data is handled centrally, so it would be redundant and error prone to store it in the library repos (e.g. if a library was pulled from a release, but wasn't updated accordingly). But some of the first metadata files still have it.
The other thing is that the category names in the json files are the internal identifiers, which I've left as-is, as I didn't want to hardcode a mapping. We'll have to decide whether to use the proper names in the json files, or whether to have a separate categories.json with the mapping somewhere. I tend towards the first option.
As you've probably noticed by now, the categories are in the xml file.