Shucks, a hardcore C++ library doesn't cater too well for C programmers!
Aggreed. Its almost as though some C++ programmers dont even know that "C" exists. Its a pity. There are many things that the typical C++ programmer could learn from the typical C programmer. Not sure it works in reverse though. 3) Dependencies.
Agreed, its a mess
4) Research Projects
Yup, agreed.
5) Macros
Well, that's what you get from trying to buil header only solutions with templates when some old-fashioned inheritance would have done. I agree. stlsoft stuff is the same.
Personally I much prefer Poco and from what you've said I think you would too - but I find myself wanting ASIO and Botan uses Boost and so does qpid - and to be honest there are useful things like tuple and it can be hard to entirely avoid it.
I know, boost has some real gems. Asio is wonderful.
int value = atoi("3.00");
Except that this is actually a piss-poor example isn't it? - because an input that isn't well formed is not detected by atoi, which is why you have to use strtol and check what the endptr is doing - but no-one every does that right, every time. Which is why exceptions are there.
Agreed.
I think maybe Boost should look to partition itself into 'general purpose' libraries and a number of application-oriented libraries, and then look at the stability/maturity within those. But its already fragmented, so there is a possibility to make life even worse here.
Agreed.
In many respects I think Boost displays some of the worst aspects of open source development, with a tendency to include things 'because I can and its really clever' rather than 'because you need it to do your mundane little project'. At the end of the day its a volunteer model and they don't actually work as well as a model with leadership, vision - and budget. Which is arguably why qt is in the ascendent now. Perhaps we should all just put principle aside and learn to moc.
I do agree with a lot of what you say - but not pleasing C programmers!
Agreed.
James
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