Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Interest for C++20 modules support of boost officially

From: Ruben Perez (rubenperez038_at_[hidden])
Date: 2025-01-29 21:54:24

On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 at 21:40, Stephan T. Lavavej <stl_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> [Ruben Perez]
> > As you may know, I wrote a prototype to enable consuming Boost as
> > C++20 modules (i.e. import boost.xyz) some weeks ago. After some
> > rounds of helpful feedback from maintainers (specially from Peter
> > Dimov), we've decided to temporarily halt the work until the module
> > ecosystem becomes more stable. I plan to revisit this prototype once
> > CMake's support for "import std" becomes stable, and MSVC fixes the
> > bugs I reported.
>
> This is awesome - thank you for trying out modules and reporting compiler
> bugs! This is exactly what's necessary to help modules become usable by
> larger and larger audiences.
>
> I've pinged our modules compiler dev about the second bug that's still
> active (the first is marked "fixed pending release").
>

Great. Thanks a lot.
Ruben.

> STL
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