Re:Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market
by j1elo on Saturday March 18, 2023 @04:24PM
(#35212769)
Boost libs circa Ubuntu (14 or 16.04) had JSON parser that allowed comments, while the newer Boost in Ubuntu 20.04 (and I think already in 18.04) had "updated" it and then it didn't allow comments any more.
Just a small anecdote of Boost changing behavior that broke some of my stuff.
Re:Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market
by UncleEntity on Sunday March 19, 2023 @03:25AM
(#35216811)
I kind of expect that I’ll have to do some work at upgrade time but it’s been a while. Usually python is the culprit and can only remember boost breaking something once but that was a different project. The maintainer was quite nice on trying to help me figure it out but I don’t think I ever got it working the same again.
Now that I think about it — it is a python wrapper around a boost library and neither of those have made backwards incompatible changes in a long time which is quite suspicious.