Re: Backward compatibility

Subject: Re: Backward compatibility
From: Christian Henning (chhenning_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-07-04 22:08:25

>
> > So far we were using the fact that GIL hasn't received updates in years
> as
> > rationale for not caring much about backward compatibility.
>
> Yes
>

I think just the introduction of c++11 features like variadic templates
will "dramatically" reduce the source code and I guess will change the API
in some ways. Same goes for features already in gil like SFINAE which can
be expressed better these days in c++17.

I hope I'm making sense.

Regards,
Christian