On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 7:34 PM Peter Dimov via Boost
Jeff Garland wrote:
On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 1:36 PM Niall Douglas via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
So **PLEASE** Boost keep doing what it's doing, keep standardising standardised library facilities, because you're a hell of a lot better at it than WG21 in my opinion.
We still do a bit of that, but mostly not because most proposals simply bypass boost at this point.
This hasn't been working very well for WG21. The trend is towards proposals named P00xxR38 with quality often not matching the average rejected Boost library.
LEWG is not an efficient mechanism for designing libraries, because iterating here is vastly faster and better than iterating at WG21 meetings.
I agree with the conclusion that WG21 should stop designing libraries. And should also stop contemplating non-foundational libraries. But until there's a reasonable library ecosystem using STD as a distribution mechanism will continue. Boost happens to be one of the better such ecosystem distribution mechanisms, still. -- -- René Ferdinand Rivera Morell -- Don't Assume Anything -- No Supone Nada -- Robot Dreams - http://robot-dreams.net