Re: [Boost-users] Boost.Beast vs Boost.Asio

-----Original Message----- From: Boost-users [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Vinnie Falco via Boost-users Sent: 03 December 2018 19:00 To: boost-users@lists.boost.org; Cristian Morales Vega Cc: Vinnie Falco Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost.Beast vs Boost.Asio

On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 10:25 AM Cristian Morales Vega wrote:

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But you have already written it, if you would offer the patch to add that documentation to Asio wouldn't Christopher take it?

Well there are a few problems there. He couldn't add it to Boost.Asio without also adding it to stand-alone Asio. My documentation is kind of boost-specific (I'm working on that though). And he would probably have written it differently (or not at all). This means that whenever I want to update it, he will have to also spend time on it. This puts an unnecessary burden on someone. Furthermore it isn't clear that Chris is the best person to be writing tutorials (or myself for that matter). Everyone is specialized differently so I think it is better for the people who have 1. the incentive, and 2. the ability to maintain the work.

Authors should never write their own docs ;-)

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Fair enough. Better to have a workaround than nothing. But until somebody with more OpenSSL knowledge comes with a proper fix, wouldn't the workaround be better in the Asio repository?

Yes this would be better if it was fixed upstream (in Asio).

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To be fair, I don't know how the different Boost libraries are developed. Maybe it's too difficult for the developer of one library to contribute to another library?

Each Boost library is like its own kingdom with its own ruler. Within a library, the author is mostly free to do as they wish. It would be nice to resolve some of these issues though.

Do 'see also' links of the form https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/doc/html/other_library/... help here help in resolving this? Both libraries could (should even) helpfully cross-link each other? A PR that is just a link is much more likely to be accepted than something that needs real effort? Paul --- Paul A. Bristow Prizet Farmhouse Kendal UK LA8 8AB +44 (0) 1539 561830