Re: Boost.Compat

From: Christian Mazakas (christian.mazakas_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-05-01 22:05:28

> It doesn't really matter how many dependencies Boost.Thread adds. What
> matters is how expensive <boost/thread/latch.hpp> is. Personally, I
> would have no problem depending on it, if I really needed this component.

One problem here is that Thread is effectively unmaintained.

In general, I'm not a huge fan of depending on libraries like this in
my own tests
because Unordered has a very strict set of flags and many Boost libraries
won't clear the same bar.

I remember in the past having a test dependency on one of the bigger Boost
libraries and it wasn't exactly painless. I can't remember now if it
was Container
or Filesystem.

Boost.Compat has utility in that it's essentially just a collection of
substitutes for
all the goodies the committee added that could've been in C++11. This benefits
both authors and users massively, instead of purporting that anyone should rely
on an unmaintained lib.

- Christian