Re: [Flamerobin-devel] Boosting FlameRobin

[Damyan I. <dm...@de...>]

-=| Milan Babuskov, Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:30:03PM +0100 |=-
> I have no Boost experience, so my only concern is whether we can rely
> on Boost API stability in the long run (for example, some thing we
> decide to use becomes obsolete in a two years and isn't available in
> newer Boost releases).

Never used Boost myself, but heard some rumors that they change the
shared library soname with each release. And indeed, Debian/sarge has
libboost-*.1.32.0, Debian/etch -- libboost-*.1.33.1, Debian/lenny --
libboost-*.1.34.1. Changing library soname is done when the ABI changes.

What is more interesting to you, though, is that the development
package, libboost-dev, does not change its name, meaning that there are
no backwards-incompatible changes in the API. The sarge version is from
April 2005.

HTH
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