Re: [boost] [Boost-docs] Maintaining boost.org

Subject: Re: [boost] [Boost-docs] Maintaining boost.org
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-02 17:50:36

At Wed, 2 Jun 2010 13:00:21 -0600,
OvermindDL1 wrote:
> 
> > Wow, this Wt thing looks really, really cool. Â I don't suppose they
> > want to be part of Boost?
> 
> I would doubt it, it is a sub-project of the Emweb company with dual
> GPL/Commercial license, they only keep it running and updating to
> support their own efforts, like the Qt/Nokia relationship.  Personally
> I question some of their design decisions, it would be quite
> interesting to create a replacement that is better optimized (in the
> boost style) with all that power.  I can propose the question though.

If they are unlikely to be interested, maybe it would be better to
quietly go about building the Boost Wt (which I presume would generate
lots of other infrastructure Boost “should” have as a side-effect).
Who's volunteering? :-)

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Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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