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Subject: Re: [boost] RE process (prospective from a retired FreeBSD committer)...
From: Daniel Pfeifer (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-31 15:26:51
Am Montag, den 31.01.2011, 13:20 -0500 schrieb Edward Diener:
> I just feel, as an end-user,
> that going from the current monolothic Boost to a modularized Boost will
> produce serious headaches if libraries are not in sync when an end-user
> attempts to use them for his product. This is especially true of
> potentially individual Boost libraries which are released at their own
> pace with new functionality being periodically added and fixes being made.
This is very true. However, changes in the development process do not
necessarily imply changes for the end user: we can use individual
projects for development, aggregate them to a release, and deliver a
monolithic package.
cheers, Daniel
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