Re: [boost] The problems with Boost development

Subject: Re: [boost] The problems with Boost development
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-21 04:29:57

On 03/21/2010 08:14 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Christopher Jefferson wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Is this not a maintenance releases problem again? That is, if there's
> mechanism to quickly roll point
> release when such a flaw is discovered, then it's relatively unimportant
> how monolitihic a design
> is.

It is much easier to ship a maintenance release of a single library than 
of the whole Boost. Users will be able to compose their local 
distributions of maintenance releases of libraries they use and thus 
strive for stability.