Re: What is this "Beman Project Development" exactly

From: Vinnie Falco (vinnie.falco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-05-09 13:27:22

On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 6:10 AM Boris Kolpackov via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> ... Boost baggage...you would have been able to drop a lot of baggage if
> you

were starting something like Boost2.
>

What you call "boost baggage" is what other companies and individuals call
a robust mature codebase upon which they have built software with economic
value. Perhaps these battle-tested components can be dropped but the users
who rely upon them would also be "dropped."

A "house cleaning" every 3 years has two problems:

1. It falsely implies that the "house" is "dirty".
2. The C++ world doesn't much embrace completely breaking working code at
regular intervals.

Thanks