Re: [boost] [Ann] Boost and Google Summer of Code 2007

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-02 13:10:23

Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> What's the point of recursive regexes since we have xpressive?

xpressive can do that with static regexes, but not dynamic ones (interpreted
strings).

However, you can view that as a "seeder" proposal to get things started if
you wish.

Aside: last year we mostly had "big" projects - write a new library from
scratch and so on - and as you may have noticed so far only one has come to
review.  It's true that there are more in the works, but I notice that many
of the other projects had their students submitting patches to their
existing code base, with more of a series of targets, rather than "one big
hit" hoped for at the end.  I'd be interested in hearing whether people
think a similar approach - for some of our projects anyway - would be
beneficial for Boost too.

John.