Re: New JSON library from the maker of Beast!

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-10-23 13:03:02

On 10/22/19 10:25 PM, Emil Dotchevski via Boost wrote:

> 
> What I mean is that your users would appreciate that your library has one
> fewer dependencies.

I understand this an agree with this.  But I think it's because our 
management of dependencies needs more insight, work and new ideas.  Huge 
progress has been made with source control, online code repositories, 
better documentation (spotty) etc.  But we still have problems in 
managing linkage, abi compatibiilty, versioning, compile switches, 
portability etc. which makes it seem more convenient to just copy the 
code right into one's project.  So the users aren't wrong, we just 
haven't been able to give them what they need to convince them to avoid 
doing this.

Robert Ramey