Re: No more cycles going forward

From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-10-15 22:10:06

On 10/16/21 12:48 AM, Glen Fernandes via Boost wrote:
> Boost 1.77.0 released with no dependency cycles between libraries.
> 
> This wasn't easy to achieve and we want to preserve it, going forward.
> We should not regress and allow libraries to introduce dependency
> cycles in any future Boost release. i.e. Doing so should be considered
> a release blocker.
> 
> Currently, such a regression exists (introduced last month in Context):
> Asio -> Coroutine -> Context -> Asio
> 
> It should be fixed before we lock the branches for the 1.78 release,
> or we should not take this change in the release.

Perhaps an issue for Boost.Context is in order. It seems backwards for
it to depend on ASIO.