2008/5/16, Paul A Bristow <pbristow@hetp.u-net.com>:
I wrote a library that provides generic classes for interval_sets and interval_maps and a few more things called "Interval Template Library (itl)". I'd like to give a very brief description of the library in this post. For more detailed information and the current source code you might want to download the itl from http://sourceforge.net/projects/itl.
A very brief reading of this (html) shows the code and documentation to be in mature shape with some interesting examples, that I feel sure will find application elsewhere.
I found interesting the most simple example of people attending a party, and the more complex, attending hospital.
(The examples might be more convincing to Boosters if the examples used Boost.TimeDate - to prove that the two work together).
As ever, there is a problem connecting with the people who could use this code. You have obviously not found a horde of people desparate to use this ;-) (but perhaps they have already downloaded it and are using it?)
I recommend exposing these examples so people don't have download the zip and unpack it before you can read the docs. (Yes I know people are idle - mea culpa).
Personally, I think this would be a useful addition to Boost.
Paul
Dear Paul, thank you for your positive feedback and for your advice to make my html documentation more easily accessible. I followed your tip and placed the documentation here: http://www.herold-faulhaber.de/itl/ Within the next days I am going to provide a few more examples that are better integrated with boost libraries specifically boost.date_time. cheers Joachim