On 17.03.2017 09:48, Niall Douglas via Boost wrote:
I'm really mystified by how almost any discussion on this list eventually turn magically into discussions about tools. It's the boost's community's main fetish. Well, everyone has an opinion on tooling e.g. love/hate on cmake.
Yeah, we all love bike-shed discussions. Let's have more of those. [...]
What most people here seem to agree on is how hard it is for Boost to change anything. So why don't we talk about the reasons for that, and how to improve, rather than waste our energy on tool discussions ? Every proposal I've ever made to fix this has been rejected. I've given up.
Right: solving the real problem is hard, so let's look for other (even unrelated !) problems instead. Someone cited the "looking for the keys under the street-light" parable already in this thread, which fits nicely, doesn't it. Stefan PS: happy St.Patrick's day ! ;-) -- ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...