28 Nov
2020
28 Nov
'20
6:07 p.m.
Rainer Deyke wrote:
From a user perspective, forking is an improvement over the status quo: it means that Boost can guarantee that the 1.x line can stop dropping support for old C++ standards, making it relatively safe to upgrade within the 1.x line.
This is only an improvement in the imaginary world where we have enough resources to maintain two forks. In reality, we have trouble maintaining one.