[Boost-users] Re: [boost] [BGL] forced client complexity

Hi, I too am dissatisfied with the complexity of many parts of the BGL... On Mar 31, 2004, at 4:48 AM, Provisional Dissonance wrote:

Is there any particular reason that a simplified interface is not made available?

Just a lack of time. The priority was placed on providing flexibility and efficiency so that the BGL components could handle any situation... that flexibility came at the price of complexity. I think a good next step would be to provide more special purpose components that are easier to use.

Perhaps a container adapter could be packaged with the library allowing a compromise of functionality and flexibility for simplicity?

Could you explain this "container adaptor" idea more.

#include ... digraph g; g << "vertex" << make_pair("vertex", "implicit_vertex"); g.add_edge("brother", "sister", "sibling"); if(g.find(make_pair("brother", "sister"))) related = true;

Perhaps this is a good place to start. Could you explain each of the above lines of code. Then we can compare to an implementation in the current BGL and pinpoint problem areas. Cheers, Jeremy _______________________________________________ Jeremy Siek http://www.osl.iu.edu/~jsiek Ph.D. Student, Indiana University Bloomington Graduating in August 2004 and looking for work C++ Booster (http://www.boost.org) _______________________________________________