Nevin Liber wrote
what about when boost hits 500 libraries Boost added what, *two* libraries last year? At that rate, the 500 library problem won't happen until the *23rd century*.
LOL - I get this. But to me there is a much larger picture. I believe that boost has largely accomplished it original mission - and quite successfully I might add. I believe that Boost has to "think bigger" to continue to thrive. If it doesn't do so, it will atrophy to a bunch of old men living on past glories maintaining a bunch of arcane libraries which "didn't make it into the standard". So I believe we need to embrace a new and grander vision for the future. This vision would include an expectation of reaching 500 libraries in the next 5-10 years. (my actual vision is even grander, but I won't divulge it here in order to spare myself even more ridicule).
Lots of other stuff has to scale first: the number of submissions, the number of reviews, the number of maintainers, etc.
Of course - and we're trying to change those things. The incubator is focused on trying to increase the number of submissions and reviews. Part of it also tries to address the number of maintainers. Another issue is that boost testing and deployment currently wouldn't scale to support this vision.
And yes, even at 500, I still want them all, if it minimizes my dependency management problem. I might want to take a newer/older version of a specific library, but that's about it.
No problem, you shall continue to have it. I'm interested in expanding the access to boost beyond our small circle of nerds. Not everyone is like us. I realize that the discussion regarding minimizing dependencies is getting tiresome. But that's because it has aspects which are difficult to address. I realize that for a number of people it's my particular problem - but it just turns out that the library I happen to maintain highlights the weaknesses of the solutions proposed so far. Robert Ramey -- View this message in context: http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/type-traits-Rewrite-and-dependency-free-v... Sent from the Boost - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.