Re: Boost is annoying

To: Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: Boost is annoying
From: Julio Merino <julio%meroh.net@localhost>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:05:29 -0400

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:
>
>   It seems that everytime Boost is updated, packages break, perhaps at a
>   rate faster than they get fixed (e.g. games/flightgear remains broken)
>
> What's the fundamental issue?  Is upstream just unstable?

Correct.  Releases of Boost are not guaranteed to be API/ABI backwards
compatible, and generally they are not.

-- 
Julio Merino / @jmmv

References:
- Boost is annoying
  - From: John Marino
- Re: Boost is annoying
  - From: Greg Troxel

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