on Sat Oct 27 2007, Douglas Gregor <dgregor-AT-osl.iu.edu> wrote:
On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 11:08 -0400, Arkadiy Vertleyb wrote:
"Eric Niebler" <eric@boost-consulting.com> wrote
In order for BOOST_TYPEOF to work with xpressive's static regexes (something I'm actively trying to support), I need registrations for reference_wrapper<> and mpl::int_<>. I'm happy to add them, but I'm not sure where. Thoughts?
Looks like the model where authors are responsible for registering their own classes dosn't work quite well... Maybe there should be a designated place with collective ownership, where interested users could add such registrations? This place could mimique the boost directory structure, to avoid conflicts, something like:
typeof_registrations mpl bind xpressive spirit ...
There are several libraries that have this kind of problem. typeof needs registrations, serialization needs serialize() functions, MPI needs datatype traits, etc.
Python needs Python bindings...
I wonder if we can solve this problem for all of Boost with some kind of automatic scheme that says: if you include header A from one library and header B from another library, you automatically get whatever glue makes A and B work well together.
...but Python doesn't really fit into this scheme of yours. There aren't any headers that bind BGL to Python. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com