On 03/22/2010 02:55 PM, Andrew Sutton wrote:
If you would like to get involved, I would be happy. But I shall retract it
from the list of GSoC ideas, for the aforementioned reasons.
I hope you'll reconsider. I think having a student build another back end or two and work on polishing the interface would make a pretty good summer project.
Hmm, that does indeed sound like a good idea. How can we phrase that to be productive, though ? What I would certainly support (and mentor) is a project where another XML "backend" is provided next to libxml2, and by doing this helping us make sure the (prospective) boost.xml API is indeed robust enough for such a switch (similar to boost.mpi, perhaps). How does this sound ? Is there any interest in this ? Such an endeavor may also help rebut some of the arguments against the current approach, and thus help move us further towards an acceptable and official solution. Thanks, Stefan -- ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...