Re: [boost] [thread] Do we can a non backward compatible version with non-blocking futures?

Subject: Re: [boost] [thread] Do we can a non backward compatible version with non-blocking futures?
From: Vicente J. Botet Escriba (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-05-21 17:08:17

Le 21/05/15 15:06, Bjorn Reese a écrit :
> On 05/19/2015 01:58 AM, Vicente J. Botet Escriba wrote:
>
>> My question is if the Boost community will accept (or even wants) a
>> breaking change on a near release (when I would reach to fix the
>> executors issues) including non-blocking futures instead of the current
>> blocking futures.
>
> It is unclear to me exactly what the breaking changes are. Are they
> limited to .then()?
>
No. In the non-blocking futures async return also a non-blocking future. 
I could change this if we think it is better to preserve async behavior.

Vicente