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Subject: Re: [boost] RE process (prospective from a retired FreeBSD committer)...
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-31 00:38:23
At Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:06:07 -0500,
Edward Diener wrote:
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> On this basis my own concern, whether a DVCS is used or not, is the
> dependencies between libraries.
...
> This means some way of incorporating version information in
> header files, some way of incorporating version information in shared
> libraries, some way of checking both transparently, and all of this
> must work in whatever environments a future individually distributed
> Boost targets.
Those are all "nice-to-haves" that are not practiced by the many other
projects that include such dependency relationships. Care to design
that system?
-- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com
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