-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Gordon Woodhull Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 8:44 AM To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] logging
So after 16 months and 2 releases, what is the plan?
So, do you have another logging library to propose to Boost?
That is a joke I am certain. And since better people than me have written and stopped working on a boost logging library due to the simple fact that one has ALREADY BEEN ACCEPTED instead, I can laugh at the joke.
Seriously folks, yes it has been a long time, but the conditions on acceptance were pretty strong [1], including pretty much mandating Phoenix v3, which has only just been released. There's a thread from late March which explains all of this [2].
OK. I missed that thread. It is enlightening. It sort of looks like maybe a shadow of a plan: wait for Phoenix V3 to stabilize then refactor because the interface will likely change in significant ways. That is reasonable, though as others have articulated I too would question the wisdom of holding up a very useful library for TWO YEARS because you know that you will need to refactor some of it in the future. This is the larger question.
Speaking as someone who followed this review closely but found that others had already covered every point I could think of, it seems to me that Andrey chose an "everything including the kitchen sink" design (which I like) and it was bound to take a lot of work to bring it up to everyone's expectations. I urge patience.
I think waiting 16 months is a boat load of patience whether it is in doggie or computer years. And of course with this model of contribution there should be little expectation even after a contributor has submitted a library and it has been approved and others have stopped working on similar libraries because of that fact? It would seem the accepted answer to the original question ("When can we expect a blessed logging facility to make it into an official release of boost?") had been "after phoenix v3 is stable". So now that Phoenix V3 is in boost 1.47, Is there hope it will be in 1.48? Is hope a plan?
[1] http://lists.boost.org/boost-announce/2010/03/0256.php [2] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/217266 _______________________________________________