Re: [Boost-users] Why even use Boost preprocessor library over my own code generator ?

From: Ovanes Markarian (om_boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-25 11:58:37

On Fri, May 25, 2007 17:40, Noah Roberts wrote:
> Keriask wrote:
>> I just want to find
>> a good reason to use it myself which unfortunately I
>> haven't so far.
>
> Then don't.  There are lots of libraries in boost that aren't useful to
> everyone.

I think you should not bring so much disrespect to people who spent their time to write these
libs. And if you just put the lib on the shelf with a sealing "not useful to everyone", some might
still use it and even "worse" find it very useful and get some additional ideas/knowledge
(sometimes very elegant) on solving their problems.

For instance, the likelihood of me using the python bindings
> library is about 1 in 1,000,000.
>
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With Kind Regards,

Ovanes Markarian