23 Mar
2017
23 Mar
'17
1:23 a.m.
Once Boost libraries are decoupled and autonomous, the "Boost branding" would take on a different meaning, as users could more freely and deliberately pick what Boost library they want as part of their development (as well as runtime) platform.
This is something that certainly confused me when I first came to boost - initially I read that boost libraries were meant to be as independent as possible in the author docs, but then the actual libraries tend to be highly interdependent. Which creates exponential complexity in terms of maintenance.