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

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.51][Release] Short release cycle
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-06-30 03:38:57

>> > I think this is the case with boost.lockfree. It is not easy
>> > to implement it without atomics, and there are no atomics for
>> > the C++03 (yet).
>>
>> I already suggested that Tim add Lockfree to trunk with only C++11 
>> support, so you're arguing against the wind, I guess.
>
> And thus begins the downfall.
>
> One library will start to depend on Lockfree, and soon it's all a right
> mess of trying to get anything to work on a perfectly conformant C++03
> compiler.

Apologies for not following this discussion in full - but Boost has *always* 
pushed the compiler envelope.  Right from the start libraries required C++98 
features that at the time were implemented in very few compilers.  It's not 
new for a library to be at the bleeding edge waiting for it's time to come.

John.