Tom Brinkman wrote:
Please, RE-READ what I said. I want this review broken up into two parts. I said nothing about the value of this library being useless without the parsers.
I understood it perfectly well. However, you also stated that the parsers should come in at a later point. Thus my point still applies, if only for limited time. However, that time is crucial. If there is a Boost release (1.35) that includes the tree, but not the parser, people might get used to that "useless property_tree thing" and not care to look at its improved value in 1.36. Bad reputations tend to stick. Also, the way I understood your post, your objection to the parsers was that they are a completely separate thing from the tree and thus should not be reviewed together. I find this objection simply wrong. The parsers are a very important part of the property_tree library, and IMO it's just its inappropriate name that makes them seem misplaced. Sebastian Redl