On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 5:47 PM, David Bergman <David.Bergman@bergmangupta.com> wrote:
On Jun 8, 2009, at 8:19 PM, Emil Dotchevski wrote:
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 5:07 PM, David Bergman
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I am not even super-happy about quite specific math libraries entering Boost now and then - ending up with a bunch of them.
The question is, do we or do we not allow domain-specific libraries in Boost? I think that it is obvious that we do, there are quite a few of them.
Yeah? I think you have the wrong idea about Boost - have you used Boost a lot, and in that case, what libraries?
Domain-specific Boost libraries are a fact, yet I have the wrong idea about Boost? :)
We could say "OK, no more domain-specific libraries in Boost!!!~!~1`~!!~111" but first we must formally define the domain of libraries that are acceptable in Boost. Good luck with that. :)
First of all, I do not understand why we would have to use profanity in stating that, but alright, I would definitely welcome such a decision, and it is quite easy; just see the table above. I would welcome exclusion of those 15 domain-specific libraries...
You still need to provide a formal definition of what is a domain-specific library and what isn't. You can't just say "These 15 libraries are domain-specific because I say so." Not to mention, this presumes that there is an agreement that we don't welcome domain-specific libraries in Boost, which (obviously?) isn't true. Emil Dotchevski Reverge Studios, Inc. http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode