Nicholas Miell wrote:
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Nice to see that somebody is finally trying to solve the problem, instead of just letting the users suffer. Maybe C++ will actually be a viable language for library development one day soon.
C++ is excellent for library development.[1]
C++ libraries present difficulties to distributors of precompiled systems in an environment where users need, for some random reason, to use the latest.
g++ 3.3 is still available, and g++ 3.4 is still being maintained. You don't want your system to break ABI? Don't break ABI in *your* system, then.[2] This is the free software world.
[2] I don't remember Red Hat / Fedora ever upgrading GCC like that for a given system version. But maybe I just don't remember much.
-- Pedro LamarĂ£o