On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM Artyom Beilis via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
And the rest of the updates are backward API/ABI compatible.
ABI compatibility is a delicate matter. Yes, I agree that for some long-term project it can be helpful, but it can also limit the development of libraries a lot. We all know about std::regex and its limits due to the fact that it needs to maintain ABI compatibility.
There are lots of ways to handle ABI compatibility (Qt's d-pointer is classic)
But we are not even in an API area. API is broken virtually every release.
It is a huge problem for a long running project especially when you have no idea what version of Boost you are going to be linked with.
Can you point to concrete projects where that has been a problem? As it's hard to discuss these things in the abstract. -- -- René Ferdinand Rivera Morell -- Don't Assume Anything -- No Supongas Nada -- Robot Dreams - http://robot-dreams.net