Re: [boost] A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass...

Subject: Re: [boost] A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass...
From: Nevin Liber (nevin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-10-31 14:27:26

On 31 October 2013 11:20, Niall Douglas <s_sourceforge_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> It would require some political bravery from the SC though, as users
> will get upset.
>

First you'd have to get the SC to agree with you.  It would be weird for an
organization that provides a fairly stable base of libraries to users to
arbitrarily go mess with that stability.  IMHO, of course.

On 31 October 2013 13:21, Niall Douglas <s_sourceforge_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Judging from that dependency graph you posted a while ago, you're
> right there is a small core of libraries where deprecation due to
> lack of maintenance can't work.

Why is usage within Boost itself any more important that usage by users?  I
don't see how the issue is any different; if you remove a library, you
break somebody.  Why is it "good" to break outside users but "bad" to break
internal users?  To me, both are bad.
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