Re: Boost, not LEWG

From: Vinnie Falco (vinnie.falco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-06-27 23:12:11

On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 3:46 PM Jeff Garland via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>  Ideally what Zach proposes will ship under the
> Boost banner first.  Why?   So more than the maybe 20 people on the
> committee will look at it before the ink is dried and it ships with
> compilers.

It sounds like the committee's workflow is defective. If more people
should interact with the library before it goes into the standard,
here's a novel idea:

    Don't put it in the standard yet.

Why does Boost.Text have to go into the standard right away? Why can't
it enjoy life as its own non-std library for a few years, the way that
Asio did? Plenty of users and companies can enjoy the Unicode library
without it having to be in the std:: namespace.

Thanks