"John Maddock" <john@johnmaddock.co.uk> wrote in message news:009f01c6ec90$40477b30$6d401b56@fuji...
Jeff F wrote:
This begs the question of how can we get compiler suppliers to include "a copy" of boost with their compilers? That would certainly remove the single largest barrier to adoption, would it not? It certainly would in the company that I just joined.
Borland used to do that, but since it was a "third party library" and not officially supported, and a little out of date (inevitable), I'm not sure how much it helped. Sigh :-(
Yes, the key is that it be somehow "supported" via pass-through to this mailing list, and be kept reasonably up. It's kind of a chicken and egg scenario - if the big customers asked for it MS, et al would do it, but getting it into the big orgs is difficult without having access through the compiler mfr's. I doubt we'd want to use borland as a poster child in this endeavor. :( Thanks, Jeff Flinn