"Nicola Musatti" <Nicola.Musatti@gmail.com> wrote in message news:f1hdjg$pnq$1@sea.gmane.org...
Rereading your proposal I realize that what I have in mind is not all that different:
First, I think that there's a set of libraries that appear to be too closely interconnected to handle them as separate components; I'm thinking of bind/function/signals, but there may be others.
Yes. I agree. I also thought that some small numeber of mosr widely used components should constitute Boost.Core component. Boost.Signals I would split though. It's special purpose (though generic) library. Smart_ptr/config/utility/type_traits are good candidates for core.
Second, I wish that Boost was also made available as a small number of packages, so that users could choose to only install those that they actually need.
Yes. I believe we will need to consider procedure for packaging of independent library releases. This is a second stage though.
For the rest, I'm convinced that the techniques you propose stand an even better chance of working at a coarser degree of granularity.
Gennadiy