Re: [Boost-users] [Proto] How to access the grammar of an expression?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Proto] How to access the grammar of an expression?
From: Dominique Devienne (ddevienne_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-24 13:07:10

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Eric Niebler <eric_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I agree with you, and it's perfectly OK to discuss Proto here. [...]

Thanks for chiming in and the background on the list's existence.

> discussion about the Phoenix3 redesign [...]
> wasn't really appropriate for boost-dev or boost-user.

Well, that's quite debatable that the redesign of an OSS library is
not proper for a dev list in the OSS project that library is hosted
in. I'm not sure I agree and it's the essence of OSS to be open and
upfront about everything. But it's just a philosophic objection, and I
know nothing about the particulars of the Spirit redesign. I just
think that if it's OSS, it should be public.

> [...] Lately, I've used it to make proto-specific
> announcements that wouldn't be of general interest,

Again I'm not sure why you feel Proto-related announcements are not of
general interest, provided if they include the usual [Proto]
subject-tag, so people can filter out what's not of interest to them.

> but I'd be fine with retiring it as a failed experiment.

I'm not saying it's a failure. Just that I feel the Boost community
would be better served by not having lib-specific MLs, that's all. My
+1 to retiring the proto-specific list :) --DD