"C++ Tweak" doesn't quite cut it right for all what's listed in this
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 03:27:30 +0100, Tobias Schwinger wrote 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
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Not perfect, but it's a start.
I've taken a shot at a different categorization once upon a time: http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?OOPSLA2004/Li... That said, I'm not sure I ever heard an answer why Beth considers the current categories insufficient: http://www.boost.org/libs/libraries.htm Jeff