Re: [boost] [Boost Review] Property Tree Library

From: Thorsten Ottosen (thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-24 06:54:10

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
> 
> 
>>>I seems like you is very confused yourself about positioning of your
>>>library. Here, you say "it's all 3" where 3 is "XML parser", and in
>>>another thread you say:
>>>
>>>  On the other hand, if boost gets its XML library,
>>>
>>>It would be pretty bad if Boost has property_tree that reads "simple" XML
>>>*and* another XML library, with different interface that has full support
>>>for XML. How am I to choose one or another library?
>>
>>Why?
> 
> 
> Why choosing?

No, why is it bad?

> Well, say I have a task of reading XML config files. I can use
> both property_tree and some future separate XML library. I can't use both,
> so I need to choose one.

Right.

> If I choose property_tree, then it's possible that several years later that
> specific config files will start using XML features not supported by
> property_tree and I'll need to rewrite my code.

Oh, well, that's everyday life for programmers. It's good to "program in 
the future tense" as Meyer says, but it also a recipe for disaster to
take too much into consideration.

-Thorsten