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Subject: Re: [boost] 1.68 Getting Started links to 1.67
From: Glen Fernandes (glen.fernandes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-08-28 15:13:01


On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 10:05 AM degski wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 at 16:51, Andrey Semashev via Boost <
> boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> > Yes, I understand that the direction is to make it more portable. We'll
> > see how it goes. (Personally, I'm feeling skeptical, though.)
> >
> [...]
> But, yes, you are right, we **will** have to see. Also VS17 adds full support for cmake, and
> github (of course, as they [ms] spent 8 billion dollars on the thing). The
> 8 billion dollars gives a good idea as to what extent ms is committed to
> open source.

Maybe we can expect the equivalent of the commitment toward voice chat
(Skype at 8 billion dollars), but only less than a third of the
commitment toward corporate social networking (Linkedin at 26 billion
dollars).

Glen


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