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Subject: Re: [Boost-users] What's happened to Ryppl?
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-29 04:31:58


On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Standardization != coordination, and while coordination can slow
>> things down, standardization brings efficiencies.
>
> It is unbelievable painful for me to say this,  but I think we're in
> agreement here.

Yeah, it's actually giving me a headache and a nasty case of bursitis.

> I'm proposing that we "standardize" things like namespaces,
> directly structure, testability requierments, documentation requirements,
> platform support requirements, etc.

and, I'm suggesting, tools such as VCSes, Build/test infrastructure, etc.

> BUT that we try to move away
> from having to coordinate so closely - e.g. making a giant release on
> a specific date.

i-think-i-may-have-slipped-a-disc-too-ly y'rs

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Dave Abrahams
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