Subject: Re: [boost] Heads up - string_ref landing
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-11-16 09:23:26
On 16/11/12 15:13, Beman Dawes wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Mathias Gaunard
> <mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> On 15/11/12 21:10, Darren Garvey wrote:
>>
>>> I agree. The top-level directory is overpopulated.
>>
>>
>> What's wrong with it?
>> If it's going to be in the top-level boost namespace, it might as well be a
>> top-level file too.
>
> We are in process of modularizing boost libraries because lumping all
> of boost into a single repo, or tarball, or whatever doesn't scale.
>
> So think about the future - in a modularized boost where the top-level
> is really just references to libraries, what library does this belong
> in?
It can be in any module.
Surely any module can add files anywhere, as long as two modules do not
have files with conflicting names.