Re: [boost] [Booster] Or boost is useless for library developers

Subject: Re: [boost] [Booster] Or boost is useless for library developers
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-15 10:38:25

joel falcou wrote:

> Artyom wrote:
>>> Sure, boost ABI changes from release to release but unless
>>> you want to provide a "one-for-all" binary release of your
>>> library, what is the issue? Even libstdc++ ABI changes every
>>> now and then.
>>>     
>>
>> Not correct. GCC keeps ABI since gcc-3.4... And this is
>> now about 6 years... Not bad?
>>   
> Were people upset back then then ?

Yes. What's your point though? It's surely impossible to hope
that a given binary library will be usable for decades. But breaking
ABI once in 6 years (if not more) is surely better than potentially
breaking ABI 4 times per year?

- Volodya