Re: [boost] Interest in a FIX Protocol Library?

Subject: Re: [boost] Interest in a FIX Protocol Library?
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-01-15 16:10:37

Sergey Cheban-2 wrote
> I think that it is a good idea to support these standards in the Boost. 
> Unfortunately, I think that FIX is far too domain-specific. As a boost 
> user, I'm not against mentioning boost-licensed domain-specific 
> libraries somewhere at the Boost web site but I don't think that these 
> libraries should be included into the default boost distribution. The 
> reasons are:
> 
> 1. The library size does matter.

The above is predicated that Distribution of Boost Libraries will continue 
indefinately to be distributed as a complete package.  Our recent efforts
including modularization, reduction of dependencies, etc. will eventually
result in a deployment model in which acceptance into boost and 
deployment will be decoupled.  Users will install subsets of boost that
they actually use.  This might result in distributions with names like:

Boost.Core - iterators, ranges, etc...
Boost.Legacy - stuff which is obsolete for modern compilers but is
still needed by some people - BOOST_FOREACH, BOOST_TYPEOF, etc.
Boost.Math - 
Boost.Security
Boost.Finance
etc.

So I think that trying too keep boost small - though attractive - doesn't
look forward to the future.  I think the main challenge to Boost and C++
in the future is to find a way to produce better quality libraries.

> 2. The boost community has to support everything that is included into 
> the boost library. What if a maintainer of some library abandons it? For 
> a general-purpose library, there are chances that someone will take 
> responsibility for it. For a domain-specific library, such chances seem 
> to be negligible.

True - and we need to find a way to address that.  But that's no reason
for keeping the library small or letting it grow - it's a different
question.

Robert Ramey

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