Hello, to me, Castor looks very interesting, and also very solid. It is strange to consider it as "domain specific", since it implements a general computational paradigm. C++ as a sort of open programming language would definitely profit by an inclusion of such general capabilities into a high-profile library like Boost. It's also not a big library, and headers-only, so should perfectly fit into Boost. Oliver On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 08:01:15AM -0400, Andrew Sutton wrote:
On reflection it comes down to the question of what Boost is. Do domain specific libraries of all sorts have a home here (for which I guess examples would include the BGL), or is Boost more about a general programming toolkit (for example Boost.Bind). I don't know the answer to that, not do I feel qualified
The second paragraph on the main page of the Boost website states: "Boost libraries are intended to be widely useful, and usable across a broad spectrum of applications." In practice too, it does not appear to favor domain specific or general purpose libraries.
Is this an argument against including Castor as a Boost library? Boost is full of domain specific and general purpose (programming?) libraries. I'm not sure this is a valid argument.
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