Re: [boost] Re: [gui] Concerning Scope (Was: thoughts on a GUI component library)

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-28 12:38:33

At 10:34 AM 12/28/2004, Alan Gutierrez wrote:

 >...
 > !~ In any case, I'm getting ready to wind down my participation in
 >    these discussions, because I don't think there is much interest
 >    here for a UI library, ...

Be careful. Assessing interest is harder than it looks. (1) Because of the 
holidays, some of the boost regulars haven't been doing much posting. I 
know I've been totally distracted with non-boost activities, and didn't 
even check email for several days. (2) Even direct queries regarding 
interest in some library often draw responses from only three or four 
people. It isn't realistic to expect large numbers of responses unless a 
query is controversial. (3) Assessing interest based on responses to 
technical discussions may not be the best way. A separate message devoted 
only to the question of interest would be better.

--Beman