Re: [boost] Proposal: Identifying libraries

[Beman Dawes]

At 11:15 AM 12/16/2002, Douglas Gregor wrote:

>On Monday 16 December 2002 09:17 am, Beman Dawes wrote:
>> I'd like to propose changing that (particularly for headers) to:
>>
>> // See http://www.boost.org/library-name for documentation.
>
>I assume you mean "http://www.boost.org/libs/library-name";?
>
>> and require that it be the first instance of "http://www.boost.org/"; in a
>> source file.
>>
>> That will make it easy to associate a header with the library it belongs
>> to, and may also help users reach documentation quickly.
>>
>> Comments?
>>
>> --Beman
>
>Sounds good. I think we should try to do the conversion automatically, at
>least for all files in subdirectories (e.g., the file boost/xxx/yyy.hpp
>would be assumed to be a part of library xxx if libs/xxx exists) and for
>files boost/xxx.hpp where there is a library in libs/xxx. We don't want
>to do this conversion by hand :)

Good point! I'll whack together a little program to do the above (after waiting awhile to make sure such a change is acceptable to others.)

--Beman


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