Re: [boost] [1.51][Release] Short release cycle

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.51][Release] Short release cycle
From: Lars Viklund (zao_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-06-29 09:30:08

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:36:01PM +0200, Tim Blechmann wrote:
> * boost.atomic seems to be dead, at least helge does not respond anymore
>   and the library will probably be obsolete, because once it is merged,
>   all compilers will support std::atomic

I strongly disagree with this statement.

There's a lot of compilers that Boost still pretends to care about. It
would be very unfortunate if we devolve into just targetting the
"popular" few.

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Lars Viklund | zao_at_[hidden]