On 8 May 2014 at 20:17, JOAQUIN M. LOPEZ MUÑOZ wrote:
Have you measured the level of Boost *usage* (even if via some proxy like lib downloads, unreliable as this is)? It could be the case that usage remains strong and it is only contribution that has dropped.
I think that would be pointless. Even on MSVC, Boost now comes as part of the NuGet package manager, so when you fire up a new Visual Studio project using Boost you simply tick the Boost dependency and you're done. On Linux or BSD of course Boost has been bundled with the package manager for yonks now. One big problem with git is you really do lose the ability to count how many downstream users of the dev repo there are. Your best available choice is to ask Ohloh for a list of all C++ projects, and then iterating their source code for Boost usage, and even that misses all the non-open source users of which there are a huge number. If I had to take a guess though, I'd say the number of total users has risen. The antipathy to serious breaking change, even when someone is removing ancient compiler cruft, is a consequence of that. Hence my desire for a C++ 14 only fork, then compatibility Boost users are happy. Niall -- ned Productions Limited Consulting http://www.nedproductions.biz/ http://ie.linkedin.com/in/nialldouglas/