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Subject: Re: [boost] Boost is supposed to serve *the entire C++ community; it isn't Boost's goal to serve Boost's community*
From: M.A. van den Berg (thijs_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-05-19 12:16:28


> On 19 May 2016, at 18:07, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:01 AM, M.A. van den Berg <thijs_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>> allow to formally support aditional build systems,
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> We already allow that.
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>> other documentation systems,
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> We already allow that.
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>> allow different types of release schedules:
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> We already allow that.
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>> standalone and separately downloadable headers only libraries that have
>> zero dependencies.
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> We already allow that.
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> And not only that.. We already have libraries that do one to all of the
> above.
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As you might expect I’m very interested. Can you give more info about this? I think these are major elements that drive the interest to contribute and it’s not clear. E.g. I can’t find any statements about this in e.g. the “Boost Library Submission Process” to name something. More visibility to this would IMO add value.


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