Re: [boost] The problems with Boost development

Subject: Re: [boost] The problems with Boost development
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-19 13:05:56

Rhys Ulerich wrote:

>>>> A couple of months some of us suggested a change of mission, for boost to become
>>>> something akin to the apache foundation, i.e. an umbrella organization for (mostly)
>>>> independent projects.
> 
>> ... we should also take into account the difficultly we cause distributions.
> 
> A potentially interesting model/solution might be for Boost to become
> Apache-like and also to follow Eclipse's multiple simultaneous release
> cycle idea (e.g. Eclipse Ganymede, Galileo, etc.).  Individual
> contributing subprojects release on whatever timescale is appropriate
> for them, but periodically the whole foundation makes a push and
> releases a cohesive, comparatively well tested, longer lived
> collection of the subprojects in a single release.  The distributions
> could better plan around such multiple simultaneous releases.
> 
> This model has worked extremely well for the open source and
> commercial needs of the Eclipse folks.

Yes, this certainly has benefits. But note that separately-installable
Eclipse components are relatively large -- generally much larger than
a boost library. Also, there's relatively simple dependency structure.
Together, that makes release engineering less hard.

- Volodya