Re: [boost] Boost's future, one big download?

From: Sohail Somani (s.somani_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-24 17:33:21

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
> [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Steven Burns
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 2:23 PM
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: [boost] Boost's future, one big download?
> 
> When I read posts like "proposal: boost library for african insect 
> classification" (joke) and things like that, I wonder what's 
> going to happen 
> to boost in the future.
> Some boost libraries are already too specific and this seems 
> to be on the 
> rise.
> Is boost going to be always a single download?
> Is boost's goal to become a "code wikipedia"?

I don't see any harm so long as the components are appropriately
independent.

The toughest would be if component X stopped working in the latest
release, but you need Y from the latest release as a dependency for X or
something silly like that. Hopefully the OSS nature of boost would help
work around that. I personally haven't had an issue like that though I
use a few boost libraries here and there.