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Subject:    Re: [boost] =?utf-8?q?Is_Boost_dead=3F_=5BRe=3A_Anyone_is_interested_?=
From:       Vladimir Prus <ghost () cs ! msu ! su>
Date:       2014-05-16 14:54:53
Message-ID: ll58rt$qlo$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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On 05/09/2014 03:01 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Sohail Somani <sohail <at> taggedtype.net> writes:
>
>> If this is the case, then the main change I would suggest is that Boost
>> needs to be easier to work with. Currently, the modular thing works
>> kinda OK but it's a giant PITA to fork.
>
> It is a giant PITA,

Yes, it is.

 > partly because it is not modular. The git migration was
> a migration to 100 fractured git repos, not modularized git repos.
>
> If you want to modularize, then decide that that is a goal for Boost and I
> will help.
>
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/245078

I am not entirely sure that perfect dependency structure would change anything. If you have 123 repos,
it's gonna be painful no matter what.

- Volodya



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