Re: [boost] Request for comments on super-project workflow doc

Subject: Re: [boost] Request for comments on super-project workflow doc
From: Nat Goodspeed (nat_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-02 16:53:06

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Peter A. Bigot <pab_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> that's not how I see submodule-based git projects in the general case.  If most Boost modules are independent (are they?), this process appears to introduce unnecessary coupling, rather like testing a bunch of unrelated feature branches together instead of validating and merging them one at a time as their individual developers feel they're ready.

Many Boost libraries are built on other Boost libraries. I believe
some of the referenced libraries are API-versioned. It would be
unfortunate if Boost produced a release that doesn't work out of the
box because library A has become incompatible with consuming library
B.