Boost has many terrific libraries.
But I want to know whether they are ready for using in real projects.
Which of them are mature enough, or just only in progress?
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"Guch Wu" <gu****@gmail.c om> wrote in message
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: Boost has many terrific libraries.
: But I want to know whether they are ready for using in real projects.
: Which of them are mature enough, or just only in progress?
Well, the most mature ones have already been adopted for inclusion
into tr1/tr2 or the next C++ standard ;)
To make it into boost, most libraries will have attained a reasonable
level of maturity. All of them have undergone a peer review.
All of them should be at least as good as in-house libraries
of most companies...
But of course, some have a more generally useful scope than others.
Some are undergoing revisions, etc. But the same would happen with
the standard C++ library if it were not an ISO standard (I'm pretty
sure that the design of std::string would have been revised by now).
I think that you are approaching the problem from the wrong end:
you shouldn't analyze the solution before identifying the problem.
First look at the collection of available libraries, and identify
those that could be useful to you. For those libraries, see if
they appear to fit your problem domain and can save you time.
If you want to study boost only to see what's ahead, start with
the libraries that have been included in tr1, or proposed for tr2: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg...2005/n1745.pdf http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg...005/n1810.html
hth -Ivan
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Thanks!
I want to use lambda and uBLAS. But I don't know how to use them till
now.
I think there needs more samples in Boost documents.
Ivan Vecerina wrote: "Guch Wu" <gu****@gmail.c om> wrote in message
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: Boost has many terrific libraries.
: But I want to know whether they are ready for using in real projects.
: Which of them are mature enough, or just only in progress?
First look at the collection of available libraries, and identify
those that could be useful to you. For those libraries, see if
they appear to fit your problem domain and can save you time.
The majority of boost libraries aren't domain specific, but rather
extensions to the standard library that are of general utility to pretty
much any C++ program. Do you use analyse your problem domain before
deciding which parts of the standard library to use?
Tom
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: Ivan Vecerina wrote:
: > "Guch Wu" <gu****@gmail.c om> wrote in message
: > news:11******** *************@i 40g2000cwc.goog legroups.com...
: > : Boost has many terrific libraries.
: > : But I want to know whether they are ready for using in real
projects.
: > : Which of them are mature enough, or just only in progress?
:
: > First look at the collection of available libraries, and identify
: > those that could be useful to you. For those libraries, see if
: > they appear to fit your problem domain and can save you time.
:
: The majority of boost libraries aren't domain specific, but rather
: extensions to the standard library that are of general utility to pretty
: much any C++ program.
I would rather think that a majority is domain-specific,
but let's save ourselves the effort of making a count.
: Do you use analyse your problem domain before
: deciding which parts of the standard library to use?
Yes. Of course.
Most of my programs have not needed to use <bitset>, <valarray>,
<locale>, <complex>, <queue>, <strstream>, <cassert>, <csignal>,
<csetjmp>, <clocale>, <ctime>, <numeric>.... .
Most of my implementation files include only a subset of the rest.
And the broader the scope of the libraries,
the pickier one needs to be.
Ivan
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On 5 May 2006 00:10:47 -0700, "Guch Wu" <gu****@gmail.c om> wrote: Boost has many terrific libraries.
But I want to know whether they are ready for using in real projects.
Which of them are mature enough, or just only in progress?
I wouldn't use Boost libraries (actually Boost is one monolitic
library) in real-world projects because they clearly don't pass
McConnell's software Litmus Test:
"When programming is seen predominately as an attempt to manage
complexity, the litmus test for any design or implementation approach
becomes clear: Does the approach increase or decrease overall system
complexity? If a design seems simple and yet accounts for all the
possible cases, it is a good design. If an implementation results in
code that is easy to read and is more simple than clever, it is a good
implementation. " http://www.stevemcconnell.com/ieeesoftware/bp06.htm
Best wishes,
Roland Pibinger
Roland Pibinger wrote: On 5 May 2006 00:10:47 -0700, "Guch Wu" <gu****@gmail.c om> wrote:
Boost has many terrific libraries.
But I want to know whether they are ready for using in real projects.
Which of them are mature enough, or just only in progress?
I wouldn't use Boost libraries (actually Boost is one monolitic
library) in real-world projects because they clearly don't pass
McConnell's software Litmus Test:
"When programming is seen predominately as an attempt to manage
complexity, the litmus test for any design or implementation approach
becomes clear: Does the approach increase or decrease overall system
complexity? If a design seems simple and yet accounts for all the
possible cases, it is a good design. If an implementation results in
code that is easy to read and is more simple than clever, it is a good
implementation. "
http://www.stevemcconnell.com/ieeesoftware/bp06.htm
Best wishes,
Roland Pibinger
Hm. Using boost's smart pointers, lexical casts, and unit testing
programs seem to substancially reduce the complexity of my C++ programs.
Joe
Roland Pibinger wrote: On 5 May 2006 00:10:47 -0700, "Guch Wu" <gu****@gmail.c om> wrote:
Boost has many terrific libraries.
But I want to know whether they are ready for using in real projects.
Which of them are mature enough, or just only in progress?
I wouldn't use Boost libraries (actually Boost is one monolitic
library) in real-world projects because they clearly don't pass
McConnell's software Litmus Test:
"When programming is seen predominately as an attempt to manage
complexity, the litmus test for any design or implementation approach
becomes clear: Does the approach increase or decrease overall system
complexity? If a design seems simple and yet accounts for all the
possible cases, it is a good design. If an implementation results in
code that is easy to read and is more simple than clever, it is a good
implementation. "
http://www.stevemcconnell.com/ieeesoftware/bp06.htm
Best wishes,
Roland Pibinger
I am not sure you can win this debate this way... :)
The only way how to do this is to _demonstrate_ superior approach. Bring
some facts.... (and even then it will be very hard, believe me ;)
Mirek
On Fri, 05 May 2006 22:42:58 +0200, Mirek Fidler <cx*@volny.cz > wrote: I am not sure you can win this debate this way... :)
The only way how to do this is to _demonstrate_ superior approach. Bring
some facts.... (and even then it will be very hard, believe me ;)
A superior approach in what respect and for which purpose? Superior in
usability, simplicity and convenience for real-world users? Superior
in exploiting the most complex template meta-programming techniques?
There is nothing wrong with Boost when it is considered what it is: an
experiment in template programming. The (implicit) Boost motto is
"Look what we can do with templates!". The criteria for real-world
libraries and applications point in the opposite direction. For the
latter the goal is to provide large functionality with small,
convenient and safe interfaces. Anyone who claims that Boost is made
for real-world users either doesn't know Boost or the real world.
Probably both.
Best regards,
Roland Pibinger
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