Actually, my suggestion isn't motivated by inclusion of any feature in particular. Its more of a desire to avoid the painful experience of last time. I think more frequent releases in smaller increments would have the following benefits. a) I think it would be easier b) authors would be encouraged to keep code maintained as opposed to "doing it before the next release" c) code would be better as many seeming small changes are discovered when the library gets out into the real world. d) libary authors wouldn't feel pressured to include development code prematurely in order to "make the release" . Currently, if an opportunity to include somethng is missed, its a long time before it appears again. I realize this is predicated on a re-organization of the testing methodology. I have made suggestions along this line in another recent email. Robert Ramey Francis ANDRE wrote:
If I had to vote somewhere in Boost, I would approved the suggestion of Robert since the serialization in DLL is a long awaited feature!!
FYI - I had anticipated that packaging the serialization library as a DLL with auto-link would be a piece of cake. It turned out to be a huge hassle for a number of non-obvious reasons. This is sort of the story of my life. Robert Ramey