On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Mathias Gaunard <mathias.gaunard@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
On 17/03/2011 19:13, Michael Fawcett wrote:
Pot meet kettle? Boost has the same issues, in fact 1.46.1 is the first point release in a long time, even when it was desperately needed in the past. It has tickets that languish for years in Trac.
It's less important for Boost, since the code is publically available and anyone can easily patch it.
I'm an advocate of open source and glad that that possibility exists.
Also most problems are fixed in trunk quickly (and again, trunk is publically available), but get into releases sometimes quite late. That's because the way Boost does releases is fairly broken; this is a known controversial issue that may eventually get fixed in the future.
Bugs are not closed wontfix, they're just not solved. That's because sometimes there is no active maintainer for that piece of code; unlike a company, boost developers do this in their spare time, and sometimes they don't have time to spare.
So honestly I don't see how you can say that Boost suffers from the same problems as the Visual C++ team.
And honestly I don't see how just because the reasons differ you think the end result is any different to an end user. --Michael Fawcett