Re: [boost] CMake Announcement from Boost Steering Committee

Right my point was that 1) Users haven't had a voice in the discussion for far too long 2) What needed to be improved has been known largely for 10 years and it never got done. Why would anyone think that the status quo would change for the better with more meetings? On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 3:32 AM, Olaf van der Spek via Boost wrote:

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 6:01 AM, Gary Furnish via Boost wrote:

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For whatever its worth as a user for 12 years, and someone who would like to contribute more then a rare bugfix, I'm glad the SC stepped in. I've observed from the outside that basically no one was ever going to touch boost.build because the people who like it (who happen to be single points of failure for the entire boost ecosystem) basically out-shouted everyone whenever a technical discussion came up. Its not like there haven't been concerns about boost.build for years. Its not like the documentation for boost.build wasn't basically "ask the mailing list or prey someone else has asked stack overflow" for years. Its not like every time a new version of MSVC beta comes out boost.build doesn't break and its not a priority because the maintainers of boost.build don't use MSVC. Its not like everyone submitting to boost doesn't complain about having to learn a non-standard build system that isn't documented richly enough to write scripts from scratch. These are not new problems. I am *really* glad that SC did something because in my mind it means boost won't die a slow death to just posting independent libs on github.

I think nobody disagrees the build system could and should be improved.

-- Olaf

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