Re: [boost] The problems with Boost development

Subject: Re: [boost] The problems with Boost development
From: Artyom (artyomtnk_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-21 00:55:14

> > 
> > The point where that breaks down is where one library
> is found to have a fatal flaw shortly after a release, you
> wait 6 months (or whatever) for another version of boost
> which fixes the bug, but also breaks the API on a half-dozen
> other libraries you use.
> 
> This is then really a problem with testing if such a
> disastrous bug slips through?

I think that it is terribly wrong assume that Boost can release any kind
of bug-free library even free from terrible, critical bugs that make 
the library useless. It is programming world. There is no such thing like
bug free software. See UUID example...

Artyom