Re: [boost] 5 Observations - My experience with the boost libraries

Subject: Re: [boost] 5 Observations - My experience with the boost libraries
From: Jonathan Franklin (franklin.jonathan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-24 00:20:07

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Emil Dotchevski
<emildotchevski_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Tom's observations are just that, observations. In my experience, they
> are correct. It doesn't mean that actionable proposals are practical
> or possible.

My experience turns out to be quite different.  And that's fine.  No
single person represents the entire boost, let alone C/C++ developer
community.

If no one has anything further to add that will actually benefit
boost, then this thread should be ruthlessly abandoned.  But thanks
for sharing. ;-)

And seriously, anyone who just wants to sound off their opinions about
C++ in general, or anything non-boost-related for that matter, should
find a more appropriate forum.

> Frankly, I couldn't care less if a particular team uses Boost or not,
> unless I am writing code that they use. And then I keep my fingers
> crossed that I will be able to use shared_ptr at least. :)

I only care because wide-spread adoption of boost (in whole or parts)
makes my job of convincing program managers to allow me to use boost a
*lot* easier.

Jon