Re: [boost] Is Boost dead? [Re: Anyone is interested in being review manager of ‘Application’?]

Subject: Re: [boost] Is Boost dead? [Re: Anyone is interested in being review manager of ‘Application’?]
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-05-13 17:05:15

On 9 May 2014 at 12:45, Stephen Kelly wrote:

> > If this is the case, then the main change I would suggest is that Boost
> > needs to be easier to work with. Currently, the modular thing works
> > kinda OK but it's a giant PITA to fork.
> 
> It is a giant PITA, partly because it is not modular. The git migration was 
> a migration to 100 fractured git repos, not modularized git repos.
> 
> If you want to modularize, then decide that that is a goal for Boost and I 
> will help.
> 
>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/245078
> 
> I think at least one of the reasons my efforts did not get support from the 
> right people is that modularization is not currently a goal for Boost. Some 
> people in Boost think that modularization is already done. It is not.

One of the KEY absolute must have feature of a C++ 14 only Boost 
refresh would be per-library source distros.

In other words, there is a separate source distro for each Boost14 
library which contains just enough of Boost for that library. One 
can, of course, copy multiple source distros into the same directory 
tree to combine libraries.

That will forever break the perception that to use one library you 
need all of Boost. It also brings in proper dependency tracking from 
the beginning.

Boost14 would also be the right time to start modular and stay 
modular from the beginning. I'd forget about modularising 
compatibility Boost, it is what it is.

Niall

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