On 5/24/22 12:30 PM, Andrzej Krzemienski via Boost wrote:
Hi Everyone, In connection with the recent discussions on the future of Boost, I would like to offer a perspective of someone who is a consumer of open-source (but also commercial) libraries. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
As usual a tour de force. A very cogent description of what boost should aim for. I doesn't have much really specific information about what we change. We don't agree on this much anyway. In this sense, I think we're kind of stuck. I very much agree that the aim of boost should be the "certification of quality for modular software components". I think it articulates what the goal of boost should be. I have personally advocated for such a role in the past multiple times. At one time I thought boost would fade away with the incorporation of many boost core components into the standard. But I no longer believe that. The standard library is getting more an more difficult to extend and maintain, the committee is starting to have it's own political problems and other issues. Note that all these comments apply to the (modular) libraries - note core language issues. I don't have much to say as Andrzej articulated my views rather well. So I'm here to say +1 I do have one specific idea we could implement which I think would be a step in the right direction. I think we should distribute pre-built documentation with each library. Disk space is not longer an issue. If we did this, users and prospective users could down load the boost module and immediately browse the library documentation without any other intermediate steps. it would be an easy change - in fact, I already do it for my libraries. No one has seen fit to complain about it - why would they anyway. Robert Ramey