Hello, Just a general interest question which came to me reading the email below. Are there any critera for what can/can't be added to boost? Somebody was telling me about ACE recently, which apprently attempts to wrap POSIX with C++. It looks like there is overlap there with Boost. Does Boost have some similar aim, to be a set of libraries covering a certain anlge, or is it litterally a collection of useful code? Would something like a GUI abstraction system be considered? Or is the limit perhaps things that could resonably make it into the STL? Hope that isn't off topic, Thanks! Gaz -----Original Message----- From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Turkanis Sent: 23 December 2004 09:58 To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: [Boost-users] Re: units library Dan Dimerman wrote:
Jeff Garland wrote:
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:33:18 -0700, Chris Goller wrote
I've been looking around for a unit conversion library. I've seen some on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/ but am wondering if any have been put into boost release yet.
Nope, none are in a boost release. And I think that the most active author has recently abandoned his effort :-( So I'm afraid you shouldn't expect anything soon.
Jeff Are you referring to something like this:
boost_1_32_0/libs/mpl/doc/tutorial/dimensional-analysis.html
I believe he's refering to Andy Little's pqs library. Andy announced recently that he wasn't going to propose it for review, but he didn't say why. I never looked at it. Matthias Schabel also was working on a physical quantities library in the last year or so, but I haven't heard anything recently. David and Aleksey appear to discuss dimencional anaylsis in some detail here: http://www.artima.com/cppsource/metafunctions.html, but I don't know how close this comes to a full-fledged dimensional anaylsis library. Jonathan _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users