Context Navigation

Changes between Version 11 and Version 12 of BoostEvo

v11	v12
36	36	=== Case study ===
37	37
38		This case study from Jeff Garland illustrates why many Boost libraries ~~choose to support older compilers and standard libraries~~:
	38	This case study from Jeff Garland illustrates why many Boost libraries leave old compiler and standard library workarounds in place as long as they do not prevent library evolution:
39	39
40	40	After three years of effort my project had finally put all (~1M sloc) of 1996 pre-standard legacy C++ to bed and started compiling most of our code in C++11 this year. In large part, Boost was the tool that made that possible. Because of Boost we were able to gradually move toward what would become the C++11 standard while hacking Boost code to work with our non-compliant compiler/std library…so that when we finally ported to g++4.8 and turned on C++11 it was just a handful of changes we had to make. And now we’re successfully mixing plenty of C++11 with C++98 code in production use.