Re: [patch] Boost.Signals + diatribe (Re: [signals] Re: [boost] take-2 [patch] usage of asserts with pointers in boost)

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-07 07:21:59

From: "Lars Gullik Bjønnes" <larsbj_at_[hidden]>
> "Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
> | When posting patches, please mention the libraries that the patch
applies to
> | (Boost.Signals in this case) so that Doug's mail reader can move the
message
> | to the appropriate folder. :-) Thanks.
>
> [ahh how clever...]
>
> This is one of the patches I mentioned in a thread ealier that does
> not fit with one single library, but rather to _all_ libraries that
> use assert on pointers. IMHO this also shows the problem with "my lib
> and his lib", and cross lib maintenance.

No. This shows a major problem with the "shared ownership" philosophy: when
nobody is responsible for something (applying your patch), nobody will do
the work, because people assume that someone else should do it.