Re: Boost BCP tool is abandoned.

From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-03-24 11:52:52

On 3/24/24 13:45, John Maddock via Boost wrote:
> On 24/03/2024 03:47, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
>> René Ferdinand Rivera Morell wrote:
>>> While making changes to update the various tools I found that the BCP
>>> tool is
>>> abandoned. As in it hasn't been updated for a couple of years.
>>> And because of changes to Boost.Filsystem no longer builds. And since
>>> no one
>>> has complained about it not building, I'm guessing no one uses it.
>> I'm not sure that's true. People occasionally submit issues against it.
> Correct.
>>
>>> There's two choices to deal with this:
>>>
>>> 1. Find someone to maintain it.
>> John Maddock maintains it if I'm not mistaken.
> 
> Also correct.
> 
> I mean it's not under "active maintenance" but really shouldn't need to
> be, it does what it does and shouldn't need changing much if at all.
> 
> It would have been nice, if, when making breaking changes to filesystem,
> someone had checked to see what they might be breaking and at least
> filed an issue, or better still a PR.  I'm sure there were deprecation
> messages, but I wouldn't see those unless I was already doing
> maintenance and building from the IDE.
> 
> I'll take a look... John.

Sorry for the inconvenience. The APIs were long deprecated and now
removed. Here's a PR that should fix the problem:

https://github.com/boostorg/bcp/pull/18