On 2014-05-08 19:59, Sohail Somani wrote:
For sure, Boost has been slowly dying since 2011 now. I'll be talking on that exact subject at C++ Now on Saturday week, which I assume will be as popular as a funeral. Can you say that? I think that the main Boosters were busy moving to Git. That took a long time and from my perspective, they did a good job given what they were aiming for. I disagree with the whole modular Boost
On 08/05/2014 11:56 AM, Niall Douglas wrote: thing, but it will probably take a couple of years and some releases before we can say that it was worth it. Has there even been a git-only release yet? I don't think so.
Too bad I won't be there to attend this funeral! Would have liked to hear your points.
Sohail
For my own part, I'd be very sad to see Boost die. It has been an invaluable resource of quality code for me thus far and I hope that it'll continue to grow. Clearly there are still people interested in submitting libraries, there are still release/review managers etc, just that the move to GIT seems to have slowed things down a tad. But I'd hope that we are merely seeing a temporary drop in the release schedule rather than the end of the whole project. Kind regards, Philip Bennefall