Steve Hutton <shutton <at> featurecomplete.com> writes: [...]
Thanks for doing this - personally I welcome the discussion of these interface details, and I am open to considering the issues you are raising.
Thank you for listening!
I've never thought that a boostified version of SOCI would go through with exactly the interface it has today. There might be a scenario in which standalone SOCI lives on alongside its decendent boost.SQL, with a slightly different interface.
Actually I was wondering about how you meant to handle it. I'd imagine that part of your user base might not be very happy about having to change their code "just" to adopt the new interface. By the way, I think you should consider moving Boost.SQL (or whatever it will be called) to a separate repository. While the logical structure of the library probably won't change all that much, it will change dramatically from a purely textual point of view, considering the need to shift from CamelCase to lower_case. Maybe the Boost Sandbox could come handy.
However, we need to get Maciej's thoughts on these issues when he comes back online.
Definitely. Somehow these discussions seem to always take place close to his holidays :-) Cheers, Nicola Musatti