Re: The new Boost 17.0.0

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-12-02 18:08:28

Ville Voutilainen wrote:

> There's a non-zero amount of users to whom the lack of ABI stability in 
> boost is a reason not to touch boost with a ten-foot pole.

That's not common. It's very unusual to want to upgrade Boost without 
recompiling the rest of the software. Typically the people who want ABI 
stability use the system-supplied Boost and it's fixed for the particular 
distro.