Re: [boost] [Config] Big changes in C++0x detection...

Subject: Re: [boost] [Config] Big changes in C++0x detection...
From: Michael Fawcett (michael.fawcett_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-18 14:28:28

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Mathias Gaunard
<mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 17/03/2011 19:13, Michael Fawcett wrote:
>>
>> Pot meet kettle? Â Boost has the same issues, in fact 1.46.1 is the
>> first point release in a long time, even when it was desperately
>> needed in the past. Â It has tickets that languish for years in Trac.
>
> It's less important for Boost, since the code is publically available and
> anyone can easily patch it.

I'm an advocate of open source and glad that that possibility exists.

> Also most problems are fixed in trunk quickly (and again, trunk is
> publically available), but get into releases sometimes quite late. That's
> because the way Boost does releases is fairly broken; this is a known
> controversial issue that may eventually get fixed in the future.
>
> Bugs are not closed wontfix, they're just not solved. That's because
> sometimes there is no active maintainer for that piece of code; unlike a
> company, boost developers do this in their spare time, and sometimes they
> don't have time to spare.
>
> So honestly I don't see how you can say that Boost suffers from the same
> problems as the Visual C++ team.

And honestly I don't see how just because the reasons differ you think
the end result is any different to an end user.

--Michael Fawcett