Re: [boost] Boost.Charconv review runs January 15th - 25th, 2024

On 1/25/24 16:45, Vinnie Falco wrote:

On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 5:41 AM Andrey Semashev via Boost mailto:boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

Not that I oppose the sentiment of making life easier to users, but OpenSSL is a project of its own, with a community of developers around it. Making their library easier to consume should be their goal, not everyone else's. If you have complaints or suggestions on this front, you should probably take them to the OpenSSL developers.

I am not complaining about OpenSSL in particular, and the "we" to which I refer is the community of C++ library authors writ large. However in this case there is a specific pain point with respect to OpenSSL and b2 which for better or worse is our responsibility and not OpenSSL's.

We could debate who is responsible for complaints or suggestions but at the end of the day users don't care; they need something that works. If an upstream provider can't get it together, pointing the finger and saying "it's their fault" is unhelpful.

It's not about pointing fingers, it's about fixing the problem where the problem really is. If this problem is with b2 then let the b2 team work on it (assuming they recognize the problem). If the problem is with OpenSSL in general then no amount of work on b2 or Boost will fix it.