[boost] Participation of Jack Lloyd in Boost.Crypto (was Re: Crypto Proposal)

Subject: [boost] Participation of Jack Lloyd in Boost.Crypto (was Re: Crypto Proposal)
From: Sohail Somani (sohail_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-04-12 10:14:49

On 12/04/2010 7:52 AM, Domagoj Saric wrote:
>> From this I gather that the original author plans to continue to develop and
> maintain the original library, in which case I wonder what would be the purpose
> of having a library that is nothing more but a 'parallel' 'boostified' version
> of the original that in itself offers nothing new and is updated only after the
> original one is updated?

I also think it is useless if Jack does not intend to treat the Boost 
version as *the* version.

However, in the transition period, I think it is only sensible that the 
student manually merges changes. Will take some planning...

-- 
Sohail Somani
http://uint32t.blogspot.com