raindog@macrohmasheen.com wrote:
Perhaps you shouldbt use or follow boost since it appears so fraught with ill design and poor quality. I personally have found it otherwise.
I don't use it. And I only follow the mailing list in proximity of release dates, as I'm still (somehow :-)) a maintainer of dynamic_bitset. But that wasn't really the point. As I said in another post, Boost is no worse than a lot of software we use everyday. Which shows in what state of pre-history our field is. Just don't "join the crowd" and think that things *have* to go that way. You'd be fooling yourself and others. (I have yet to understand why people have come to be so tolerant of defects in software: if I visit a shop to buy a TV and the salesclerk tells me that the model I like is defective then I don't buy it. I'd bet most people do the same. Yet, for software...)
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Nice to know :-) -- Genny