Re: Which libraries in Boost are mature enough to be used in real applications?
James Kanze wrote:
Le Chaud Lapin wrote:
> Wil Evers wrote:
>> filesystem
>> program_options
>> serialization
>> test
> I am extremely curious to know what was it that made you
> decide to phase out the serialization library.
I'm interested in the reasons concerning all of them, but
especially filesystem -- I think this one is a candidate for
standardization, and if there are problems using it, it
shouldn't be standardized.
True. IMO, one major reason for rejection is that the model is not
universal. In othe words, the creator of the libary has to invest
considerable thought into examining just what is being model before
marking the library. So one could say that, if you have managed to
create a completely portable library that seems to satisfy all, then
you have coincidentally devised a steady-state model for the domain
that you are making a library for. In serialization, I noticed that
Boost, IMO, came very close, but then they started that versioning
stuff to compensate for changes in the declaration of classes...
-Le Chaud Lapin-
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