Stefano Delli Ponti wrote:
My points are:
- Jon is offering an already implemented ORB with an IDL parser: while the parser front-end will probably need a complete rewrite, the rest of the code needs only some refactoring due to the /boostification/. He is not going to implement the whole _huge_ thing from scratch.
Yes, understood. However, there is much more effort going into a project than development. What about maintenance (adapting to new compilers, say), compiling all the new code and running all the new regression tests that such a project would surely add ? This impacts the whole boost project. (Again, with a modular boost where components would be built / tested / released all this would be mood.) Also, as boost right now is released as a single entity, another concern is the perception from users. Boost already is huge. The boost developers not actively supporting modularization or even simple (platform-neutral) packaging really doesn't help. Again, would boost not be a single entity, all these arguments would be void. Regards, Stefan -- ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...