on Sun Sep 28 2008, dan marsden <danmarsden-AT-yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
It is my understanding that Boost authors retain the "rights" to modify and upgrade their libraries once accepted, both in terms of implementation and interface changes. Boost.Xpressive has seen many changes iirc, including the sorts of changes that we're discussing (reimplementing in terms of proto + I believe some smaller interface changes). Many other libraries have similar history. If the authors of these libraries had stated their development plans, in advance of review, should they have been rejected until they were "finished"? Joel has been very open in stating his future plans, but what he plans has happened many times before to accepted libraries.
I think one difference here may be that Joel already knows he has interface-breaking changes planned (if that's not actually the case, I apologize). Several libraries have had interface-breaking changes after acceptance, but AFAIK these were not anticipated at the time of the review. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com