OOPSLA2004/Library Roadmap

The following is a breakdown of libraries I (Jeff Garland) would like to see as a compliment to the current C++ standard. Obviously not all of these will be part of the standard, but some should be and others might be part of boost. The afternoon discussion topic at OOPSLA will be brainstroming what's missing from this, what's wrong with it, and which of these things are the most important.

If you would like a pdf version of the diagram you can get it here: [cpp_libraries.pdf]

Here's a brief description of the categories:

algorithms -- Collections of useful algorithms that leverage standard containers
concurrency -- Support for writing concurent threads and processes
containers -- Additional container types
data_types -- Libraries for representing various general data types
dev_support -- Support for C++ development including runtime tracing and unit test.
db -- Libraries for database access
graphics_format -- Read and write various standard graphic formats (eg: png, jpg)
io -- Extensions to C++ I/O
math -- Libraries to support mathematical programming
meta_programming -- Tools for compile-time/run-time programming and library building
networking -- Libraries that enable distributed and network programming
gui -- Libraries that provide standard graphical interfaces
portability -- Support for portability between platforms
resource management -- Tools for resource management
string -- Libraries for processing strings
value_types -- Libraries that implement 'number' and string types
web -- Libraries to support web development -- primarily server side

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