on Fri Jan 02 2009, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not against creative freedom at all. What I'm saying are two things:
1. Please, chose more descriptive names for your libraries. 2. Major changes in library functionality should be reviewed.
Not commenting on #1. As for #2, a. That has never been Boost's official policy. We can have a debate about it, but that debate has yet to occur and there's certainly no consensus. b. I have never seen an example where such a change was conducted with good library evolution practices and it caused major problems. c. I've seen several examples where undertaking even minor changes without good library evolution practices causes major pain. d. I myself did a major, total (seriously interface-breaking) rewrite of Boost.Python in 2001-2002 without review, and it didn't cause any serious problems for users (that I know of). -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com