As an indie (with low budget), I often wish to be pragmatic and leverage existing code to save on expenses. I often find useful engines and libraries using google but sometimes when I'm looking for something simple like a c++ geometry lib that can find a tangent between two circles, I find that google fails me. While I'm sure something like that exists (in Boost), I don't know how to search for it correctly.
In this case I can find a code snippet and / or implement it myself but it raises the concern that I'm implementing and relying on a lot of code snippets that are not fully tested. I would rather use something like Boost for instance. The question is I guess, is how to check once you find strong, reliable libraries like Boost to see if the tool/functionality you need exists in that library and where?
To narrow down the question, I am looking for a good strategy to quickly search for tools inside Boost w/o having to read whole the documentation in it's entirety. The real question is more general and basically revolves around any libraries.
I downloaded the Boost documentation and got 73 pdf files. I tried searching online and got a general page about Boost Geometry. I'm sure it's great. I just don't find it highly accessible.
Thanks
