Subject: Re: [boost] [review] **NEXT WEEK** Review of Outcome (starts Fri-19-May)
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-05-14 18:33:27
Niall Douglas wrote:
> > Well, not quite. Let's suppose it's accepted. There is a repo under
> > boostorg, boostorg/outcome, that hopefully contains headers. Someone
> > issues a pull request against one of those headers. To incorporate this
> > PR, you need to backport it into the primary Outcome source, then rerun
> > the boostification script, then commit the result to the boostorg repo,
> > then check whether the changes match the PR.
> >
> > Correct?
>
> It depends on what conditions the peer review places on Outcome to be
> accepted.
>
> If the repo were accepted as is presented - and my hope would be that it
> is - then users will be using it directly.
This answer makes no sense to me. Boost acceptance implies that the library
is distributed as part of a Boost release. How could users be using it
directly?