Hello, Is there a possibility of making submissions that use meta-C++ to assist with writing DirectX-based code? Obviously, DirectX is Microsoft-specific (but not necessarily platform specific!). So my question comes down to "is there a space in boost for MS-specific systems"? Perhaps in boost::microsoft or boost::directx or boost::microsoft::directx. I have a number of systems that are generally useful, and would like to support the use of boost in game development. It is hard enough to get gamedevs to use STL, let alone boost. But for example, creating vertex declarations is a royal PITA and can be assisted with some deft use of boost::mpl. Plus, we are already using boost::shared_ptr<> to make com_ptr<>, but it could be made more obvious and a lot of people don't know how to use it. There are two ways of looking at it. First, boost is about C++ and not about supporting specific API's. Fair enough - but then there are many boost libraries that use system-specific idioms such as threads and lock-free containers. It could be argued that boost doesn't want to tie itself to a proprietary API which itself will be versioned and modified externally to boost, but the same is already true in a lot of what boost does. Another way of looking at it is that boost is here to be used by real people solving real problems. In this case, it seems that there is room within a new namespace for domain-specific boost libraries. I realise this is a can of worms. What do you think? Should boost be more egalitarian and increase its possible audiance, or is introducing a dependancy on a 3rd party proprietary API an anathema to boost? Regards, Christian. ----- http://www.linkedin.com/in/christianschladetsch