Phil Nash wrote:
No, that wasn't my main point - it was just a supporting factor. And I wouldn't necessarily call them all "stupid". Some have good, if misplaced, reasons. My overall point was just, as others have said, to reach a much wider audience.
My company (i.e., my boss) is VERY reluctant to rely on third-party software, which includes Boost libraries. If Boost ceased to exist or support new compilers, we would be stuck with a major task of maintaining code, which we did not develop. I'm not saying that this is likely to happen, and I have managed to convince everyone here that Boost is widely accepted and very professionally developed and maintained. However, libraries that are part of a C++ standard give us a reliable guarantee that we can use them in code that will work on new platforms and compilers with no maintenance needed on our part. It may be a lot of work on the part of Boost developers to get their libraries accepted as standard, but I very much appreciate their efforts. I consider their acceptance as a major success. -- Dick Hadsell 914-259-6320 Fax: 914-259-6499 Reply-to: hadsell@blueskystudios.com Blue Sky Studios http://www.blueskystudios.com 44 South Broadway, White Plains, NY 10601