On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 13:09:20 +0300, Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> wrote:
Daryle Walker wrote:
[Summary: Erik wants to contribute a Unicode strings project, but he wants it to simultaneously be his college thesis.]
Would taking on this project be the best idea for Boost? We wouldn't be able to help Erik too much to prevent accusations of cheating.
That's a problem for Erik ;-) Nobody can stop you from suggesting ideas.
But just judging from the amount of conflicting ideas expressed in the previous thread, I think there is a lot to be evaluated and decided on; plus, Erik has its own ideas too. Building on and referring to a publicly available discussion does not have to be a problem for an academic work, I think.
But what happens if Erik proceeds too slowly for someone? They can always do their own Boost Unicode project, but that may bring up the cheating problem.
Again, it can only be a problem for him. Besides, do you have a specific "someone" in mind? So far, everybody agrees that Unicode is important but nobody has the time.
At the start of the previous thread, I talked about a draft for a Unicode library I was working on. I'm not sure that's on anybody's mind, though. :-) Anyway, I have for now suspended the effort, mainly because I have come to believe that my initial ideas are not necessarily the best ones. I'm looking forward to participating in the discussion about Erik's library though.
Basically our Unicode needs will be locked into Erik hands, and neither assistance nor competition can occur unless Erik withdraws the project from either Boost or his college.
Basically, this depends on requirements for thethis. I really doubt that thethis will consist of 40-page printout of source. It would have to discuss approaches, problems, solutions and so on, and that's what would be interesting in such a thethis. And then email on this list in not worse that a published article -- a thethis always refers or based on a number of articles and can use emails in the same way.
I agree fully. Furthermore, I think even preliminary designs for a Boost library, and especially an important one like a Unicode library, should be discussed on the mailing list. Should Erik's college not allow this, I think the discussion will have to be done later, possibly resulting on a total redesign. Regards, Rogier