Re: [boost] Boost.Fiber mini-review September 4-13

On 9/11/2015 11:34 AM, Nat Goodspeed wrote:

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Nat Goodspeed wrote:

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The mini-review of Boost.Fiber by Oliver Kowalke begins today, Friday September 4th, and closes Sunday September 13th.

I'm pleased to see the level of interest in this library. Many people have contributed to the discussions so far.

However, as of this moment we have no definite reviews in hand.

I invite those of you who have an opinion to state explicitly whether you believe the candidate Fiber library should, or should not, be included in Boost.

I have fallen out of commission for reasons outside my control and I won't be able to produce a formal review, so here is the short version: My vote is to reject the library in its current form, the reasons (most of) are scattered across the mailing list. Regrettably some of those reasons are no different than those presented on the first review, and have not been addressed in any form.

If, regardless of your yes/no vote, you also have ideas about how the library could/should be improved, please state them as explicitly as possible to give the library author the best chance to act. If you have already elaborated a particular suggestion in previous mail, please at least summarize and say so.

I'd like to see this library becoming part of Boost, so I would like to urge the author to engage in the community. Please ask for feedback way before the review process starts. If you have already had a review, follow up on each piece of feedback, explicitly state how you have addressed it, nag the reviewers to look at your solution to guarantee it matches their expectation, etc. Finally, although this carries no weight on my vote, I find the decision of making the library C++14 only extremely disappointing. The library doesn't **need** any of the new C++14 futures, it just uses them to simplify the work of the author at the cost of reducing the number of potential library users. C++11 support for this library would be almost trivial, I don't think this decision is justified. Regards, -- Agustín K-ballo Bergé.- http://talesofcpp.fusionfenix.com