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Subject: Re: [boost] [Review] Boost.Convert review decision
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-06-06 22:01:52
On Wednesday, May 4, 2011, Stewart, Robert <Robert.Stewart_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Edward Diener wrote:
>>
>> Because Vladimir Batov has expressed himself by saying that he
>> does not want to continue to offer his Boost.Convert library
>> as a library for Boost, I am respecting his decision and his
>> library is NOT accepted into Boost.
>
> I'm sorry he has done so. I think good ideas surfaced during the review and I think they could have been incorporated without a lot of trouble. Still, those ideas do result in quite a different design than Vladimir presented, so I can understand his reticence to write and maintain a library that others designed, so to speak.
Maybe someone else will want to pick up the code and carry those ideas forward
-- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com
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