What is your evaluation of the design? -------------------------------------- Excellent! The design provides useful degrees of flexibility without getting mired in generality-for-generality's-sake. What is your evaluation of the documentation? --------------------------------------------- Needs work - somehow the documentation in its present form manages to be less than the sum of its parts. Sorry for the vague hand-waving, but it just seems as if the information you're looking for in the current documentation is always Somewhere Else. Having received very clear and straightforward responses from the library authors on a number of questions, I am confident that this is a matter of organization rather than any fundamental flaw in design or content. I would recommend focusing on "howto" type documentation rather than the concepts and reference docs. What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the library? ------------------------------------------------------------------- A must-have! Images have become so ubiquitous in computer applications that having a standard container for images makes as much sense as standard containers for strings, vectors, etc. Did you try to use the library? With what compiler? Did you have any problems? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes - I used the library with gcc 3.4.4 on Gentoo Linux without any difficulty. How much effort did you put into your evaluation? A glance? A quick reading? In-depth study? ------------------------------------------------------------------- I retrofitted GIL into a mature 3D graphics pipeline, replacing the home-grown floating-point HDR bitmap storage with GIL and using it to implement several readers, filters (algorithms) and writers, and integrating it with the gtkmm GUI toolkit for image previews. Total time spent with the library: ~ 5 hours. Are you knowledgeable about the problem domain? ----------------------------------------------- Yes, having implemented a bitmap storage library of my own that was also parameterized on pixel type (albeit much more limited in scope). Do you think the library should be accepted as a Boost library? --------------------------------------------------------------- I recommend that GIL be accepted for inclusion in boost. Regards, Tim Shead