Re: Revitalization

From: René Ferdinand Rivera Morell (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-12-06 20:50:11

On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 2:45 PM Robert Ramey via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> 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 Atomic (because it is superseded by the standard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 That's not correct because parts of Atomic are only superseded by the C++20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?

No. And no one, except you, has mentioned binaries. The entire
discussion has only been about source.

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