Re: Registries

"Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.boost.langbinding
Message-ID <200307161749.h6GHneBO084905__7400.85151414878$1059273110@boa.lbl.gov>
>>>2. We had something similar in BBv1 and my CBD guys in Ralf's group
>>>    report a *big* usability improvement in BBv2 from the automatic
>>>    sharing.  Of course, you had to name every type being shared
>>>    explicitly in that case.
>>
>> Right, it would probably be less of an improvement if you could
>> import entire modules. I would like to hear what Ralf says about
>> this though.
>
>Me too. Ralf?

I am not sure I have to say very much beyond what I wrote here:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/c++-sig/2003-June/004464.html

I am still frightened by the thought of going back to explicitly
exporting and importing individual converters. However, a less granular
approach, like explicitly importing all converters from a certain
extension at once does look attractive.

Ralf


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