Rene Rivera <grafik.list@redshift-software.com> wrote:
As I allude to in the intro to the boost.build section of the SoC wiki page, I personally think writing great libraries isn't just about writing the code for those libraries. The tools one uses, and the documentation one creates is much of the time more important. If just for the plain reason that having good tools allows one to concentrate more on the libraries. As a mentor for Computer Science students I would think that the development process is the key point of SoC. The resulting code is just an excuse to get students acclimated to working in Open Source development process. (Yes I'm intentionally framing this only within the SoC.)
You could use this rationale to have boost work on compilers, linkers, operating systems, and hardware. There are other groups that concentrate on making good build tools. Boost does not exist because people wanted better build tools. If you are interested in build tools, then by all means join those other groups. You can even use Boost as a testbed. But I don't think it is good to have boosters work on it to the point where it distracts away from Boost's raison d'etre: making good C++ libraries. Cheers, Walter