On 5/9/07, Doug Gregor <dgregor@osl.iu.edu> wrote:
On May 9, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Felipe Magno de Almeida wrote:
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Unfortunately, we have no data either way.
Sure. So probably we shouldnt believe only, or almost so, boost developers would benefit from this.
Mainly if the user has a library-centric design.
I'm quite certain that library developers aren't our main audience. Rather, I expect most Boost users are application developers. Most applications are only built on one compiler per platform, since you're not going to ship binaries built two compilers on the same platform. Skimming through the "Who's Using Boost?" pages, I'm seeing a bias toward applications.
Most are applications. But that doesnt mean they dont write libraries to use with those applications. That's one kind of library-centric design for building applications. The project I work on is in "Who's Using Boost". Is called MIntercept and we have lots of libraries. The application is, practically, only the coordinator of these libraries. We test some libraries against two versions of VC++, and sometimes against cygwin too. It is very useful in C++ to have more than one compiler, and I believe boost users are very educated in these regards.
- Doug
Best regards, -- Felipe Magno de Almeida