| -----Original Message----- | From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org | [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Andy Little | Sent: 18 September 2006 15:48 | To: boost@lists.boost.org | Subject: Re: [boost] Boost Units feedback | | I am now starting to find this attitude of publicly ignoring | my work, especially | while many of the *Units* efforts are privately borrowing | ideas from it downright offensive. | | http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/quan | | regards | Andy Little I'm very sorry that you found this offensive - it wasn't intended - and you may remember that I supported your proposal at the recent review. I was only saying that I personally didn't feel the essential requirements should not be set too high. Your considerable and commendable efforts on this project meet the same chicken and egg problem - I feel that you haven't yet got a reasonably representative base of reasonably contented users - and I suspect that an important reason for this is that it isn't a Boost library yet. How to solve this conundrum, I just don't know. Another important difficulty is lack of agreement over the scope of the project(s), as recent long discussions have shown. Nor the compile time cost that can be endured. I wish your project well, hope you get lots more real-life users, and I trust that others will take care to acknowledge your substantial contribution. Paul --- Paul A Bristow Prizet Farmhouse, Kendal, Cumbria UK LA8 8AB +44 1539561830 & SMS, Mobile +44 7714 330204 & SMS pbristow@hetp.u-net.com