On Monday, July 7, 2025 14:06, Jakob Lövhall wrote:
Since this was with respect to keeping things ABI stable. In my view, boost accepting ABI breakage is the very reason that it stays relevant.
Just out of curiosity: are you developing on Windows or Linux? For Linux devs, the issue is that if we link in some 3rd library supplied by the distro, and it happens to link in some Boost libs, then we must either take the distro version of Boost for our own code, rebuild the other distro-provided libraries we want to use that link in Boost, or just avoid the mess and forego using Boost in our code. I'd bet most of you have run into people or projects that make a concerted effort to avoid using Boost, and I'm sure that's one of the reasons. ABI compatibility is indeed a high bar, but I see value in at least trying to manage when the breaking changes happen. Not that I'd expect Boost to change now, but just wanted to share my experience with the matter. Matt