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Subject: Re: [Boost-users] What's the status of log library?
From: Michael Caisse (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-05-22 17:38:54


On 05/22/2011 02:16 PM, Gordon Woodhull wrote:
> On May 22, 2011, at 6:04 AM, archie14 wrote:
>
>> Tim Moore<tim<at> montecito-software.com> writes:
>>
>>> I believe the library was accepted provisionally in 2010 and is
>>> awaiting modifications by the author:
>>> http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2011/03/177804.php
>>>
>>>
>> quite sad, actually. Either library exists in boost or it does not. Year and a
>> half is sufficiently large time period for the author to either complete the
>> library or withdraw it.
>>
> Please try to understand
> 1. This is a volunteer organization and hardly anyone is getting paid to work on this stuff.
> 2. The conditions on acceptance were pretty stringent for this library.
> 3. One of the conditions was to use Phoenix lambdas instead of the home-made stuff Andrey came up with. Phoenix has been in flux and is only now ready for other libraries to build on it.
>
> In other words, it's not really either-or: there's a lot of work in the intermediate stage. That's part of how the libraries end up so good. :-)
>

Also... log uses filesystem which was updated with a non-backwards
compatible version (V3). Recent changes to boost log appear to be
available on the sourceforge trunk. It is being actively worked on.

michael

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Michael Caisse
Object Modeling Designs
www.objectmodelingdesigns.com

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