Re: [boost] [mpl] Abandoning old compilers

Subject: Re: [boost] [mpl] Abandoning old compilers
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-02-28 22:40:34

AMDG

On 02/28/2015 08:20 PM, Edward Diener wrote:
> Do we then say that because a library no longer
> has a primary maintainer who created the library that no changes to the
> library except for bug fixes should ever be made ?

Absolutely, unless someone new is willing to take
responsibility for the library.  I would be much
more conservative about this for MPL than for
most other libraries, given how fundamental it is.

> That is very
> unrealistic consider that very few creators of a library are willing to
> maintain that library perpetually, which is only natural.
> 

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe