Moving this conversation to a new thread:
As an example of this: I recently proposed to add variadic move construction for nodes to boost::pool (a trivial change). And even though this has obvious advantages (and would get rid for C++11 capable compilers of the use of M4 to generate the necessary code), this was received with: file a PR, including tests (?) and change to documentation. Enough to put me off, so I just changed it locally.
Unfortunately the pool lib is not a good example - as previously stated it has no current maintainer - but as (probably) the last person to try and do some community maintenance on this library, the impression I came away with was that it needs rewriting. Actually more than that.... it probably needs redesigning if many more of the existing bug reports are to be fixed. I've actually said this on the list before, and suggested that Pool.2 might be a good candidate for as someone's first Boost library (since it's not too large), but so far no takers. There is possibly another issue: the performance of most std lib allocators has improved to the point that it's actually questionable whether using the pool lib has much real benefit (but this need quantifying so the cases where it does help are documented). Maybe that's what has put people off, or maybe it's just not sexy enough for anyone to take on, but I still hope that someone will.... Best, John. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com