On 12 Sep 2025 01:06, Nana Sakisaka via Boost wrote:
2025年9月12日(金) 4:17 Joel de Guzman via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org>:
Due to some backlash with this PR, mostly due to breaking changes. We should probably ease up and rethink what we are doing here. Boost thrives on consensus, and the discussions seem to be going in a negative direction, which should be addressed both in the PR and in this mailing list.
I urge the parties to raise the issues the the PR:
https://github.com/boostorg/spirit/pull/807
FWIW, my position is that I am all for modernizing and moving to C++23, but it should be done carefully and with consideration to users of Spirit X3 and Boost in general.
Re-quoting this message to inform the list that further discussions should take place on the specific link Joel mentioned.
Personally, it looks like there's confusion as to which Spirit version serves which purpose, and in particular, which version should be considered production-ready by users. I think, the decision needs to be made by the Spirit maintainers and then announced here and in release notes. I do not think the PR comments are the appropriate place to discuss this decision (if such as discussion should happen) because (a) this goes beyond the X3 refactoring work done in the PR and (b) the PR comments are not as discoverable as this ML and release notes.