Re: [boost] is review system in place is extremely slow? (was Re: [rfc] rcpp)

Subject: Re: [boost] is review system in place is extremely slow? (was Re: [rfc] rcpp)
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-02-26 04:06:17

Andrey Semashev wrote:
> On 02/24/2010 02:15 PM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
>>
>> It's perfectly OK to move those 3 libraries to the 'detail' namespace 
>> of Boost.Task and
>> have review as it is, as opposed to waiting. What do you think?
> 
> Please, don't go that way. At least Boost.Atomic is a widely demanded 
> addition to Boost, and if it goes as some closed implementation detail 
> for an other library, it would be a great shame for users (it would 
> surely be for me).

As pointed out by Daniel down the thread, this is only good point if you
expect somebody to help with Boost.Atomic. If there's nobody willing to
help, then you either get it inside Boost as implementation detail, or you
bot don't get it inside Boost and block some other potentially useful libraries.

- Volodya