Re: [boost] RFC: Community maintained libraries

Subject: Re: [boost] RFC: Community maintained libraries
From: Nevin Liber (nevin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-06 17:56:08

On 6 December 2013 11:52, Niall Douglas <s_sourceforge_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>
> i.e., to be clear, I would suggest an aggressive pruning and
> deprecation policy as a method of giving people a business case to
> take to their managements which they would process as an End Of Life
> support issue. Whether in practice a library *actually* gets deleted
> from the approved list of Boost libraries is entirely another matter,
> but the threat needs to be credible.
>

-1.  We should never deliberately have an adversarial relationship with
companies that use Boost.  It would not end well, because they are unlikely
to respond to threats in the way you would like them to.
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 Nevin ":-)" Liber  <mailto:nevin_at_[hidden]>  [phone]