Re: No more cycles going forward

From: Oliver Kowalke (oliver.kowalke_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-10-16 06:57:44

Am Sa., 16. Okt. 2021 um 00:10 Uhr schrieb Andrey Semashev via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]>:

> 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.
>

reverted