on Sun Sep 14 2008, Stefan Seefeld <seefeld-AT-sympatico.ca> wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
on Sat Sep 13 2008, Stefan Seefeld <seefeld-AT-sympatico.ca> wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
I don't know if anyone at Boost has taken the time to solve the problem in general, so I'm really glad to see the issue raised.
That may not exactly be the solution you have in mind, but I can't resist pointing out that a somewhat different approach to backward compatibility might have helped alleviating the effects that ultimately cause people to be looking for such alternative solutions.
I guess you'd have to be more specific if you want me to understand what you're driving at.
I figure the main reason people are urged to use multiple boost versions side-by-side is because of API incompatibilities between them.
More like ABI incompatibility. Our APIs have been relatively stable, IMO, but if you have precompiled binaries from one vendor that uses 1.34 and from another that uses 1.35, what choice do you have? -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com