Re: C++ Boost

["David A. Greene" <greened@eecs.umich.edu>]

Mark Brown wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 02:31:52PM -0500, David A. Greene wrote:


> > old.  I've a feeling Raphael is too busy to fix the packages.
>
> This would not surprise me - I've had similar experiences with several
> of his other packages, with even trivial bugs going unfixed for very
> long periods of time.


Considering that portions of Boost have already been submitted
to the standards committee for the next revision (this is all
_very_ preliminary), I think it's important to get them
fixed and into Debian.  I view Boost as another C++ standard
library, something every C++ developer should have in the
toolbox.  Eventually, part or all of it _will_ be an official
standard library.  It _really_is_ that useful.  IMHO, this
is too important to be left in the lurch.  'Course, I might be
somewhat biased.  :)

                        -Dave

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