Re: The new Boost 17.0.0

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-12-02 18:27:47

Marshall Clow wrote:

> I must concur with Ville here; I have had several people tell me they won’t 
> use Boost because “it changes with every release”.

Boost does change with every release, and I still keep using 1.38 in several 
projects of mine, but these changes are not limited to ABI at all. 
Everything changes, you have to retest the whole lot, for correctness as 
well as performance.

And in general, expecting ABI stability from a collection of predominantly 
header-only libraries is setting one up for severe disappointment.