Re: [boost] Road to low-quality-code is paved with good intentions of dropping dependencies

Subject: Re: [boost] Road to low-quality-code is paved with good intentions of dropping dependencies
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-01-07 14:40:02

Michael Caisse wrote:
> This worries me. I have had mixed results with type traits specifically 
> and the behaviour of the Boost flavour versus the std flavour from various 
> vendors. I don't recall the specifics right now except to recall that the 
> std::is_pod in MSVC produced different results than gcc and Boost.

Our practice has generally been to not use the std version of something if 
it fails our tests, although there's always the possibility that your code 
happens to not be covered by our test suite.