Re: [boost] Threads

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-08-02 10:09:01

I agree strongly with Dietmar and Nathan; they more clearly make many of 
the same points I have made in the past.  We have to nail down the big 
picture first.  Without goals, definitions, and a generally solid 
foundation, we would be wasting our time.

Dietmar wrote:

 >My personal feeling is that we need right now some documents lying out
 >the basics of our threading concept and a general agreement that we
 >feel bound to these documents. Basically, this consist of the following
 >
 >- A clear statement of our goal.
 >- A decription of techniques, idioms, pitfalls, etc. related to
 >  achieving this goal.
 >- A set of interfaces used by those techniques and idioms.
 >- Possibly a simple [demo] implementation.
 >
 >Probably, these documents are created in this order with feedback
 >incorporated into them.

Yes.  I'd probably slip "- A definition of terms" in between the first and 
second.

--Beman