Re: [boost] Is there interest for a small portable garbagecollection library?

From: Edward Diener (eddielee_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-26 18:57:16

Achilleas Margaritis wrote:
> It seems there is not interest for such a library after all. Anyway, I 
> placed the final beta version in the vault under memory.
> The only library it uses is pthreads, so it should be portable (I have 
> tested it on msvc++ 7 so far).

Your problem in gaining interest is that your documentation does not 
explain the use of your library. This is a common mistake of many 
programmers, who put out implementations and assume that anyone 
interested must be willing to spend hours or days figuring out, somehow, 
what is there and how it is to be used. Inevitably, no matter how 
original or creative that implementation may be, it will be unused by 
the vast majority of people who, given adequate documentation, might be 
interested in it.

Take a look at the Boost documentation for its libraries to see what 
should be done to explain the use of yours. Then, if you update your 
documentation and explain well what your library does and how the end 
user should use it in its main use cases, I believe you will garner some 
interest by potential users.