On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 13:31:25 -0400, David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
"Robert Ramey" <ramey@rrsd.com> writes:
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OK - but I'm still curious: "What is the motivation to take on the extra work of making it part of boost?"
The authors can speak for themselves, but I can think of a few.
Yes. In fact I was waiting for them to speak before stating my opinion.
* Boost is standards track * The review process is educational and usually improves libraries * More eyes on the code/docs improves libraries * Exposure to more users
Though these are important points I think there's one aspect which is probably the most important of all: our testing. I doubt there's any other library collection around that gets so much organized regression testing, on so many compilers and platforms. It's my opinion that this fact alone may be worth the effort of boostifying. --Gennaro.