Re: [boost] Is there interest for a small portable garbagecollection library?

From: Achilleas Margaritis (axilmar_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-27 06:15:32

> Your problem in gaining interest is that your documentation does not 
> explain the use of your library. This is a common mistake of many 
> programmers, who put out implementations and assume that anyone 
> interested must be willing to spend hours or days figuring out, somehow, 
> what is there and how it is to be used. Inevitably, no matter how 
> original or creative that implementation may be, it will be unused by 
> the vast majority of people who, given adequate documentation, might be 
> interested in it.
> 
> Take a look at the Boost documentation for its libraries to see what 
> should be done to explain the use of yours. Then, if you update your 
> documentation and explain well what your library does and how the end 
> user should use it in its main use cases, I believe you will garner some 
> interest by potential users.

Thanks a lot for the advice. That is what I am going to do.