On 14/05/2021 13:59, Guy Cpp via Std-Proposals wrote:
> Not everything needs to go in the standard library. Discovery is a
> problem though. Why doesn't the committee host a library of useful things?

You seem to be making several assumptions:

1. It is within the committee's mandate/scope of activities to improve
discoverability of C++ libraries.

2. A committee-hosted/committee-blessed set of libraries will be
significantly more discoverable than such libraries are today.


I'm somewhat doubtful of (1.), although I might be wrong. I'm pretty
sure (2.) is not true. Most C++ developers are barely aware, if at all,
of the existence of the standardization committee.


However, as Richard Hodges suggests - perhpas you're actually hinting at
the equivalent of the standard(ish) package manager that some languages
sport - Python (pip & PyPI), Rust (cargo), Ruby (gem), Javascript (npm)
and so on?

If that's what you mean - that's not exactly what you've written. You've
focused on blessing specific libraries rather than formalizing/blessing
a library discovery mechanism. The latter seems closer to what the
committee would consider.