[Flamerobin-devel] Boosting FlameRobin

[Milan B. <mil...@gm...>]

Hi,

Today I started my first Boost tour. I did know about Boost for a long
time, but never found the time to really look into it seriously until
now. Or course, prospect of it being used in FR pushed me into it.

I experimented with shared_ptr and it works very nice, I'm glad we'll
be using it. I wonder if prefixing such type with P is a good idea
though. Is it a common practice? The reason I ask is that there seem
to be other pointer types, so maybe PS or SP prefix would be better?
Or perhaps P (as in simply 'pointer') is used because shared_ptr is
the most common boost pointer type in use. I'm a complete boost
novice, so feel free to put me in my place if I'm out of order :)

Anyway, the main reason of me writing here is that I see some really
interesting stuff like boost::any, tuples, etc. which solve some
problems I ran into before while doing FR development. So my question
is: do we Boost the FR code with all kinds of useful stuff, or should
we try to keep it at a minimum?

I have no Boost experience, so my only concern is whether we can rely
on Boost API stability in the long run (for example, some thing we
decide to use becomes obsolete in a two years and isn't available in
newer Boost releases).

I'd appreciate if anyone with Boost experience would give comments.

Thanks,

-- 
Milan Babuskov
http://www.flamerobin.org