Re: [boost] Thoughts on Boost v2

Subject: Re: [boost] Thoughts on Boost v2
From: Nevin Liber (nevin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-05-22 16:06:26

On 22 May 2014 12:07, Niall Douglas <s_sourceforge_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> I also proposed in my OP that we skip package
> management as it's too costly to implement correctly, and go for
> per-library source distros instead which pushes the version lock
> problem onto users to solve.
>

How does significantly increasing the barrier to entry for current and new
Boost users help your premise of saving Boost?  Besides not agreeing with
the premise, I just don't understand how it would do anything but hasten
its demise.
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