Hi,
In my country's colleges and universities, C++ is in process to be replaced as a teaching and project developement language because there is no single place which could provide basic libraries for simple domains.
I understand, that you aare looking for a standard. If you were just looking for a solution, I'd propose to look into Qt. It has not only a lot of GUI stuff, but a pretty well designed foundation library as well, which also includes e.g. an XML parser. Yet it is not really well integrated with the standard library, let alone boost, though the Qt developers obviously are trying to improve on that. Maybe a good Idea could be to try and get a cooperation with the Qt developers going, that aims to remove Qts dependencies on language Extensions (Object Meta Information and their own signal-slot mechanism) and replace them with solutions that are completelly done with C++11, like e.g. boost signals2 library. When that is successfull, the result could be a great set of new boost libraries. Similarly an adoption of solutions like e.g. CPPCMS for web applications would also be a good Idea. Christof -- okunah gmbh Software nach Maß Werner-Haas-Str. 8 www.okunah.de 86153 Augsburg cd@okunah.de Registergericht Augsburg Geschäftsführer Augsburg HRB 21896 Christof Donat UStID: DE 248 815 055