Andy Little wrote:
"Joel de Guzman" wrote
Is your impression in any way connected to your feeling that Boost is getting over crowded and hence more unfriendly to the Boost user?
Has there been any progress in making each library available separately?. That would surely answer the criticism that boost is too big. Watching the downloads would also give useful feedback as to which libraries are most used. That must be essential information to the standards committees Finally making each library separately available would give more prominence to the libraries themselves rather than the boost brand. (I dont know whether that is good or bad).
Good point. For example, from the beginning, Spirit has its own site and has a separate download. We even package a "miniboost"--just enough to get things going. http://spirit.sf.net It might be a good idea to give library authors their own web space under boost where they can put stuff like separate downloads. That shouldn't be too hard to do. For example, since 2 years ago, we've separated the application repository from the spirit distribution to take off the excess "fat" from Boost. We placed examples and full Spirit applications outside the distro into a slot in the website: http://tinyurl.com/29mcn Soon, I'm planning to collect stuff like tutorials and place them in the site as well. I'm even considering removing things outside the "core" Spirit from the distro into a separate download to further streamline the library. Cheers, -- Joel de Guzman http://www.boost-consulting.com http://spirit.sf.net