On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 5:47 PM, Niall Douglas via Boost wrote:
I have also received quite a bit of private email begging me to keep Outcome free of a hard Boost dependency if accepted. [snip] Actually there is overwhelming evidence that Boost **users** do not want a dependency on Boost. But I've been saying that for years now.
It seems like these users are best satisfied with just github.com/ned14/outcome. i.e. They wouldn't even need Outcome to be part of the Boost collection of libraries, if they desire Outcome to be standalone and independent of Boost.
That's not what I've been told.
They want Boost libraries without all the hassle that comes with Boost libraries. I keep saying this for years, but no one here on boost-dev appears to listen.
They're telling you they want a Boost release to contain your Outcome library, but that they only want to depend on your Outcome library and nothing else in Boost? Why wouldn't they prefer to download a 1 MB outcome.zip from github/ned14 instead of a 150 MB Boost release zip? Glen