Re: [boost] The future and present of Boost

I agree with RR, though, these things should not be part of C++, I don't even think the Network TS should be in the standard, it's highly specialized stuff, with heaps of pitfalls [most user posted problems on this list pertain to ASIO [and Beast (no criticism intended, it's just complicated stuff)].

I think there is widespread agreement that if we had a decent and universal package management solution, most of the standard library proposals before the committee would no longer be necessary. Interestingly, P1031 Low level file i/o and the Networking TS are not examples of those. Both require changes to the core language to work well. So I think for those two at least, they'd be before the committee no matter what. Niall