On 13 May 2012 at 21:28, Michele De Stefano wrote: > I read that post from Jim Bosch and I thought he knew something more about > Boost Python development.
What Jim didn't mention is how BPL v2 (the current version) was first written. Basically, Berkeley paid Dave Abrahams a chunk of money to (re)write it and others have since bolted on extras, fixed bugs etc. But Dave designed and wrote the core. Dave, needing to put bread on the table, has to choose to only code where he is paid for it. If someone stumps up the cash to substantially improve BPL, I don't doubt Dave will be only too happy to fix all sorts of things in BPL. There is a long list of known issues in BPL. Unfortunately, the number of complainants (and I include myself here) on this mailing list has never matched the willingness to front cash or personal time to fix them. That's not a criticism, it's just how open source works. > I would simply like to be re-ensured that Boost Python development is going > on, because I like this library a lot. The best way to ensure that Boost Python development goes on is to send a few thousand dollars per year to Dave and/or Boost Consulting for maintenance. Unfortunately, as far as I am aware, no one has done so for Boost Python in some years now which is a great shame as bitrot has definitely set into BPL. In the end though, if it's really important enough to people, someone will eventually either stump up cash or do the rennovations themselves. Niall -- Technology & Consulting Services - ned Productions Limited. http://www.nedproductions.biz/. VAT reg: IE 9708311Q. Work Portfolio: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/nialldouglas/ _______________________________________________ Cplusplus-sig mailing list Cplusplus-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cplusplus-sig
