Re: Revitalization

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-12-06 20:41:40

On 12/6/22 12:37 PM, Andrey Semashev via Boost wrote:
> On 12/6/22 21:58, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
>> Rainer Deyke wrote:
>>> A more neutral approach would be to give each library a range of C++
>>> standards for which the library is useful, and allow the user to filter by the C++
>>> standard they are using.  Picking C++11, for example, would filter out both
>>> Atomic (because it is superseded by the standard
>>> library) and Describe (because it requires C++14).
>>
>> That's not correct because parts of Atomic are only superseded by the C++20
>> standard library, not the C++11 one.
> 
> And some features are not in any standard so far.
> 

Wouldn't all this discussion be irrelevant if Boost was distributed only 
as source code and not pre-compiled libraries?

Robert Ramey

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