Re: help building boost with V2

From: Kirill Lapshin (gclbb-jamboost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-26 22:12:56

David Abrahams wrote:
> I can only speak for myself, but from my standpoint it's mostly

Lets ask people to speak up. Few subjective points of view could add up 
to more or less objective one.

As for myself, I honestly never even tried to understand V2 in full 
detail. I have some (limited) experience with regular jam, and I like V2 
as user much more. I've read docs couple of time, browsed code a little, 
but complexity was quite overwhelming, so I was giving up every time. I 
can make a local change, lookup the behavior from sources, but I don't 
feel comfortable with making big changes.

Add to this the fact that Vladimir is very responsive to user requests, 
and V2 is in quite good shape at the moment, so why would I bother 
hacking my way through the code if I could just ask on mail list? :)

Does it mean that V2 is bad? I don't think no. Overengineered? I don't 
know enough to judge on this one, but it might be the case. Lacks 
documentation? Certainly. Would more/better documentation simplify life 
for users? Absolutely. For developers? Not really sure.

--Kirill