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: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-05-16 10:54:53

On 05/09/2014 03:01 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Sohail Somani <sohail <at> taggedtype.net> writes:
>
>> 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,

Yes, it is.

 > 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 am not entirely sure that perfect dependency structure would change anything. If you have 123 repos,
it's gonna be painful no matter what.

- Volodya