Re: Technical Excellence?

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-03-28 18:46:21

On 3/28/24 7:01 AM, Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 2:34 PM Robert Ramey via Boost <
> boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
>> I would like to see suggestions as to how we could get usage statistics
>> on boost libraries.
>>
> 
> Yes, this is an important area of analysis for which no perfect solution
> exists. However, researchers at The C++ Alliance have developed an
> experimental technique which offers hope for newly submitted libraries.

Actually, I was thinking more of existing libraries.  Case in point.  I 
get relatively little feedback on the boost serialization library.  It's 
been 20+ years. Initially it was almost alone.  But now there are lots 
of alternatives. Serialization has never been proposed for the standard. 
It has few "stars" on github. I'm wondering if it's even used any more. 
It's becoming increasingly out of sync with evolving boost tools and 
hence more effort to maintain.  Perhaps it's time to deprecated it or 
remove it from boost.

Robert Ramey