Re: [boost] [modularization] proposal and poll

Subject: Re: [boost] [modularization] proposal and poll
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-05-30 07:37:06

On 30 May 2014 at 12:04, John Maddock wrote:

> > Does this make sense? I am specifically advocating a structural
> > break, a clean start. I think working on a fresh, empty Boost will
> > get people to volunteer to give up family time to write Boost code
> > again.
> 
> All I see from this idea is a requirement to spend even more time on 
> Boost.  Just my 2c yours, John.

It should be fun again to work across Boost instead of within silos 
John.

So why do I keep saying end of this year?

1. I need to try removing Boost as a dependency from all my own code 
first to figure out what really is the minimum needed. I'm blocked on 
expected<> for this right now, I need that to eliminate the need for 
Boost.Thread.

2. I need a meta test framework which lets you whatever underlying 
test framework. This lets me swap out Boost.Test for any other test 
framework, I really don't care which so long as it outputs Jenkins CI 
results.

3. Keep building out my CI based quality assessment framework for the 
wider AFIO project, for which I need at least to write:

  a. A clang AST parser which warns on things like move constructors 
without noexcept and other things I keep forgetting in my code etc.

  b. A clang source rewriter which does a live Boost to STL source 
conversion. This will mirror the minimum of Boost I need into a C++ 
14 edition, per commit to original Boost.

4. I'm thinking of all this as being a great showcase for my proposed 
graph database. See my C++ Now presentation on what I proposed as a 
future "as if all header only" C++ build system.

I'm basically writing all this for my own purposes, but if others 
find it useful, they can hop onboard. I hope to restart work on all 
this after June 15th, health permitting. It's been a very long hiatus 
these last many months sadly.

Niall

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