Re: [boost] Some statistics about the C++ 11/14 mandatory Boost libraries

Subject: Re: [boost] Some statistics about the C++ 11/14 mandatory Boost libraries
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-05-21 08:37:58

On 18 May 2015 at 10:20, Vladimir Prus wrote:

> > Travis can run, per commit,
> > http://ispras.linuxbase.org/index.php/ABI_compliance_checker which
> > ensures that ABI and API have not broken for a given API version of a
> > given library. Each API version lives in its own git branch.
> 
> That will only test ABI compatibility at best.

Nope, it can do API checks now as well. If it can compile with GCC 
4.8, it works.

> Unless you suggest
> that version 1 and version 2 of a library do not share any source
> code, it's quite possible that version 2 will break functionality
> in subtle ways, while retaining API/ABI, and there are not tools
> to check for that without testing.

I was actually intending to ship whole copies of AFIO for each 
version. It's only 18k lines each.

Niall

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