9 May
2024
9 May
'24
1:27 p.m.
On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 6:10 AM Boris Kolpackov via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
... Boost baggage...you would have been able to drop a lot of baggage if you
were starting something like Boost2.
What you call "boost baggage" is what other companies and individuals call a robust mature codebase upon which they have built software with economic value. Perhaps these battle-tested components can be dropped but the users who rely upon them would also be "dropped." A "house cleaning" every 3 years has two problems: 1. It falsely implies that the "house" is "dirty". 2. The C++ world doesn't much embrace completely breaking working code at regular intervals. Thanks