Dave Steffen wrote:
Rene Rivera writes:
loufoque wrote:
So we should put boost into the standard library because of the stupidity of some companies or team leaders ?
Some of those "companies" have no choice. For example a government contractor must comply with regulatory restrictions, many of which correspond to some form of international or US standards.
< someone 'way in the back raises a hand >
It can be much worse. When working on classified projects (at least here in the USA), _any_ software brought in from "outside" has to undergo rigorious inspection and screening; this can take weeks, or even months if one has to go through various other agencies, committees, etc.
The process and requirements have nothing whatsoever to do with the contractor, and everything to do with government security regulations.
I don't see that having the interface for such software in a standard would effect this problem. The implementation would have to be screened in any case. Of course if one is using a library which has already been screened in a different or related project, presumably that code - if it hasn't been changed - will be acceptable for the current one. But for that to work one needs to have better portability than we now have. Robert Ramey