Beth Jacobson wrote:
Tobias Schwinger wrote:
What's wrong with "libraries by category" part of
http://www.boost.org/libs/libraries.htm
in the first place?!
Nothing. This would be in addition to, not in place of.
Fine. I guess you can get some library descriptions from there. Some of the descriptions could perhabs need an "English translation" for new users.
"C++ Tweak" doesn't quite cut it right for all what's listed in this section, I think.
Suggestions are welcome.
OK, here's how I would structure what Boost's all about for someone who's new to it: - components that are direct add-ons to the standard library Array, CompressedPair, DynamicBitset, IO State Savers, Iterators and MultiArray - components that deal with functors Bind, Function, Functional, Lambda and Phoenix (currently part of Spirit) - components that refine concepts that originally came from C Any, Optional and Variant - components that provide abstractions for OS facilities Filesystem, Thread and Timer - components that address typical programming problems Crc, MultiIndex, Pool, ProgramOptions and Serialization - components for text processing Lexical Cast, Regex, Spirit, StringAlgo, Tokenizer and XPressive - components that address mathematical problems everything under boost/math, Graph, Interval, MinMax, Random, Rational, TriBool and uBLAS - components in the domain of programming languages Python and Wave - utilities everything under boost/utility, InPlaceFactory, Ref SmartPtr and ValueInitialized - components for addding syntactic sugar Assign, Format, Operators, Parameter and Range (well, sort of) - components for generic programming / metaprogramming CallTraits, Concept Check, Enable If, MPL, Preprocessor, StaticAssert, Tuple and TypeTraits - components for portability- and quality assurance Test, Config, Compatiblity and Integer . Not perfect, but it's a start. Regards, Tobias