Daniel James wrote:
On 19 March 2010 08:14, Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> wrote:
So, I would like to ask that everybody who is somehow involved in *development* -- whether in writing code, triaging bugs, sending patches, or managing thing, list three most important problems with Boost now.
I'll reply to this properly later, I just want to say that we should also take into account the difficultly we cause distributions. I was surprised to see us mentioned alongside much more high profile projects here:
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/290
But I don't think it was a complement. We didn't pay much attention to this post at the time, but probably should have:
That is unfortunately a completely different set of problems. On one hand, we have problems that are perceived on the developing side. On another hand, we have problems on the using side -- where lack of any API or ABI stability is surely an important concern -- but solving that concern actually requires more work from developers, and even, I think, more centralization. There's no doubt Debian folks or any other packagers will not be happy about 90 libraries on a separate release schedule. - Volodya