Jeff Garland wrote:
[...] I think that having a 'bunch of individuals' is a big part of the problem. We really need a group of people with a shared vision to work together. That way one person walking away doesn't shut things down totally. [...] Yet we continue to go forth with individual efforts. To me, people with time and motiviation should help Hugo with his effort, which I believe implements the concepts we have been discussing for years. Not perfect, but a good start. If I had time I'd do it myself. If this doesn't work, we should really be laying out a collaborative plan to start over as a group.
Hugo's code was a one-person effort. The whole stuff I set up on http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?BoostNet is based on what Hugo and others contributed in the Wiki. This *is* an attempt to go on with what we have already. Looking at all the discussions going on here I am not hopeless. The stuff I wrote in this thread was an attempt to give a summary of the discussions and make some decisions to go on with the design (as these discussions must lead to something practical of course). I don't know if this will work in the end. But I don't want to create a library by myself as I agree that these one-person efforts have proven to fail. Boris
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