Robert Ramey wrote:
I can say What I believe we want to move toward is the ability for users to deploy a useful subset of boost in order to support his applications. I don't think that's unreasonable or controversial.
Then tell us the user-story. Does the user download a tarball or not? What's the rest of the story?
I've made a more concrete proposal. I believe that some variation of this could be made to work. I think it addresses the real problems that users face.
What if you are completely wrong and out of touch? What if your concept of modularity is completely wrong? What if you should educate yourself about modules, but you don't?
There is just no way simply "splitting a library" is going to really address anything and move us forward.
It's a pre-rejected idea, as I said. Thanks, Steve.