Re: [boost] Policy for breaking changes

Subject: Re: [boost] Policy for breaking changes
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-12-03 21:00:37

On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Andrey Semashev via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 12/03/17 20:13, Rene Rivera via Boost wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>> .
>>>
>>
> Is it supposed to show some kind of graph? I don't see any.

Yes, it's supposed to show a graph, that indicates there where 7 downloads
in the last month. Works for me with Chrome.

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