Re: [boost] Boost.Beast state of play

On Thu, 2 Jul 2020 at 21:39, Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:

On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 11:28 AM Robert Ramey via Boost wrote:

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I agree with this.

That's very nice but worth precisely nothing, because you have no skin in the game at all. A delay means that for the next four months of SG4 Networking meetings we will have no field experience or knowledge to use to negate bad ideas that are brought before the committee. It is worth the risk.

While I understand your concern 110% (i.e. better than you do), the "WG21 politics" as you call them do not constitute a reason to release a possibly low-quality boost. You can appeal to existing implementation experience until the cows come home, but that alone doesn't guarantee that LEWG and WG21 end up standardizing an existing API without modifying it. Getting into such hypothetical plays is not worth the aforementioned possibly-lower release quality in boost. Boost should do what's technically and quality-wise right for Boost users. The WG21 part of it is someone else's problem (including mine), and we don't need shenanigans to get WG21 to do what's technically right for standardized networking.