Gennaro Prota wrote:
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 07:26:52 -0700, "Robert Ramey" <ramey@rrsd.com> wrote:
Lubomir Bourdev wrote:
Is there an interest for having GIL be a boost library?
I took a tiny look at the documentation and I'm curious as to why you want to make it a boost library. It's already part of a prestigious high visibility group. That is, what benefit would be had by adding it to boost that it doesn't already have? Would this added benefit be worth the extra work?
I hope "making it part of a prestigious group" isn't the rationale for any of the boost inclusion proposals; oddly enough, a few days ago I was discussing with a friend who also is a boost member, and we identified this as a possible cause for the lack of maintenance that some boost libraries are experiencing; if you see inclusion as a sort of "award" then once you get the library accepted you have no more "goals" to pursue and likely lose interest in your creature.
OK - but I'm still curious: "What is the motivation to take on the extra work of making it part of boost?" Robert Ramey