Boost advocacy - help needed

Question

Possible duplicates
Is there a reason to not use Boost?
What are the advantages of using the C++ BOOST libraries?

Answer 1

Boost is a great tool and an invaluable part of our product development (we'd be lost without smart_ptr)... but because it is changing so fast the stability of releases can be effected.

For example, we were happily introducing new versions of Boost as soon as they came out without thinking twice. That is until we were stung with a bug in the 1.35 threading library that produced occassional (ie difficult to debug) but critical errors. Fortunately we identified the issue before anything was released to the public and could move back to 1.34.

Ever since then we've taken a specific version, extensively tested it, and not updated without a compelling reason to do so.