Re: [boost] The new Boost 17.0.0

On 12/2/20 1:21 AM, Edward Diener via Boost wrote:

I believe the great majority of Boost libraries attempt to maintain ABI compatibility between releases.

My impression is the opposite. Boost has never declared backward ABI or API compatibility. There's a reason why binary distributions of Boost append a version tag that matches Boost version to packages and binaries.

But just like with compilers it is not always possible between releases.

You have to give credit to libstdc++ developers at the very least. It maintains backward ABI compatibility across all C++ standard versions and across libstdc++ releases for many years. I think, libc++ also does the same, although I'm not following its development.