Re: [boost] Policy for breaking changes

Subject: Re: [boost] Policy for breaking changes
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-12-03 17:13:11

On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Robert Ramey via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>
> Finally, I see hana as very niche library which is not in wide usage in
> user code.  So it's not clear how many people would be effected by
> "breaking" changes. If it were 10 people I'd say we should just let the
> author deal with it.  If it's 100,000 people, it should be handled
> differently.  Unfortunately, we have absolutely no useful information
> regarding how widely any particular library is actually being used. It
> would be useful to have such information for cases like this as well as for
> many others.
>

Some information from the Conan Hana package.. <
https://bintray.com/bincrafters/public-conan/Boost.Hana%3Abincrafters#statistics
>.

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