Re: Opinions on merging Assert, StaticAssert, ThrowException into Core

From: John Maddock (jz.maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-10-16 18:19:16

On 16/10/2021 18:10, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> Nikita Kniazev wrote:
>> Recently Core grew with additional dependencies on StaticAssert (in 1.76) and
>> ThrowException (in the next release), previously it was only depending on
>> Assert and Config. That made a lot of libraries checkout the same four
>> repositories, three of them containing only a few headers. Merging into a
>> single dependency will affect mostly positive about 100 libraries and negative
>> 1: StlInterfaces (depends on Assert, and will on Core).
>>
>> Please leave a comment at https://github.com/boostorg/core/issues/97 if you
>> think it is a good idea, or have concerns against doing that.
> I prefer keeping this discussion here on the list, rather than in an issue, so please
> reply here instead if you have an opinion. :-)
>
> The proposal is:
>
> * Merge Assert into Core
> * Merge StaticAssert into Core

This is fine by me, I imagine that Boost.StaticAssert is rapidly 
becoming obsolete anyway?

John.

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