From: David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>
Rob Stewart <stewart@sig.com> writes:
From: David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>
* When you download Boost, you get the whole collection
As others have said, this should be on another page.
No, it needs to be part of "What is Boost?" When these people asked that question, they wanted to know what they were getting.
I disagree. A bullet or other prominent link that developers new to Boost can follow to find information on what Boost is at that level of detail would work fine. IOW, I don't want to put information on the home page that would go over the head of a manager considering Boost, yet I want a developer to be able to find that information quickly. As has been oft mentioned, the home page is too busy. Adding more won't make it better. I want to reduce the home page clutter while making important information accessible.
* There are some dependencies among libraries, but they are not tightly coupled
That's good, but I'm not sure whether you need to say that to the newcomer. At least shorten it to, "Low inter-library coupling," and put it in the bulleted list above.
That doesn't seem like a very significant change, but it also sounds like an improvement.
Making it shorter is better, but I was really trying to suggest that it ought to be on that "developers new to Boost, look here" page I'm suggesting.
* There is a tool (bcp) for extracting the parts you want and their dependencies.
Put this elsewhere.
Maybe, if "low inter-library coupling" refers to something, it can be in there. However, if we're telling people they're going to get the whole Boost collection when they download, that question will come up naturally.
Sure.
* Many boost libraries can be used just by putting the library collection's top directory in your #include path. Complete instructions for getting started are at: ___
Covered above. This should not be on the home page.
Whether or not any of this section belongs there really depends on the rest of the organization of the home page. That said, this point needs to go whatever section contains the rest of the information here. All of this information is needed in whatever introductory section we end up with.
I just want *two* introductory sections and this wouldn't be part of the one on the home page in my ideal. -- Rob Stewart stewart@sig.com Software Engineer http://www.sig.com Susquehanna International Group, LLP using std::disclaimer;