Artyom Beilis writes:

The problem is that it isn't going to change in near future because it is almost impossible to reach a consensus of some strategic direction because any major change will find enough developers who will not want one.

So today I use boost only in applications and never in libraries.

I'm only comfortable using Boost in private/closed source applications. I think on line code generation will help with some of the packaging problems discussed in this thread. Brian Ebenezer Enterprises - Enjoying programming again. http://webEbenezer.net