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Subject: Re: [boost] RE process (prospective from a retired FreeBSD committer)...
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-30 19:11:51


AMDG

On 1/30/2011 2:16 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
> At Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:06:28 +0300,
> Vladimir Prus wrote:
>> Dave Abrahams wrote:
>>>
>>> b. the mental drag of having to deal with all the parts of Boost
>>> that simply aren't relevant to you.
>>
>> What do you mean by mental drag? Having extra directories in your
>> checkout?
>
> Yes, among other things. For me personally, Boost's monolithic
> structure takes much of the fun out of working on it. Totally
> subjective and un-provable, I know.
>

I don't get it. I just don't get it. What
is so hard about finding the directories for
the library that you're working on and ignoring
everything else?

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe


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