On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Robert Ramey

wrote:

On Monday, December 23, 2013 8:47:21 AM UTC-8, Beman Dawes wrote:

Comments welcome,

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Beman.

This is beyond awesome !!!! (I can't believe I used the word "awesome")

I've been dabbled with git on my own machine (now a new machine) for a few months and it's been OK but I never really "got" the branching/merging, etc..... Mainly this is because I didn't really have to yet. I've also been lurking around waiting for the smoke to clear with boost modularization - a cowardly position I know, but expedient in my particular circumstances right now. The work you've done is getting this organized AND well explained is incredible. I'm aware that the dust has to settle some. But this looks to me like it's going to support a whole new trajectory for boost. It makes me very, optimistic about future of boost and C++ in general.

Personally, I don't think that it's too much to say that boost saved C++.

And I don't think it's too much to say that you're saving boost right now.

Robert, thank you very much for the kind words. Knowing that work is appreciated is a strong motivation to continue! But do remember this is a long process with a lot of people contributing, both now and in the past. Dave Abrahams and Daniel Pfeifer deserve special mention for several years of work on the git and modular boost conversion implementation. The release managers and boost.build team are working on infrastructure. The testers will soon be doing their part. And mailing list participants are providing the ideas and feedback that drive the whole process. Thanks to all, --Beman