Re: [Boost-users] [Review] GGL review starts today, November 5th

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Michael Fawcett wrote:

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Jose wrote: I can't understand how that applies to what I said, sorry. I didn't come up with the idea of what the library should be, the library authors did. I believe it's up to the reviewers to determine if the implementation matches the author's intended scope (among many other things).

The author's intended scope has to match Boost goals to merit a review. In practice, this is not always the case. These issues have been discussed in the Boost list. The thread is Updating the Boost Review Process - Was Polygon(GTL) vs GGL - rationale. Boost doesn't aim for libraries in a very specific application domain, as stated in the home page.