On 17 May 2016 at 11:37, Robert Ramey <ramey@rrsd.com> wrote:
There is one big lesson from all this:
a) Boost is not a company - we don't take direction from the top. b) Boost is not a government - we actually do something. c) Boost is a religion - want something changed, start preaching. Get other people on board. Convince people people to start doing something.
Boost is not a religion. It's a set of tools; no more, no less. Does Boost have to evolve? Of course it does, because the world around it has evolved. It came about when it was 13 years between releases of the standard, and there were a lot of obvious-in-retrospect libraries (especially vocabulary types) missing (shared_ptr, function, optional, variant, any, etc.). Now it is 3 years between standard releases, and in some ways making a proposal directly to the committee is easier if you want to get your library out there: shorter commitment, only need one implementation, no need to support that implementation for years under multiple compilers, etc. -- Nevin ":-)" Liber <mailto:nevin@cplusplusguy.com <nevin@eviloverlord.com>> +1-847-691-1404