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Abseil Support for CMake
▻https://abseil.io/blog/20190402-cmake-support

By Jon Cohen, Abseil Engineer

CMake is a popular tool used to build multi-platform C++ projects. Abseil has had unofficial CMake support for some time, but support has never been as robust as that for Bazel. We are happy to announce that Abseil now fully supports the CMake build system.

Abseil supports CMake through the add_subdirectory command for full source inclusion, or by local installation into your project. Future Abseil LTS releases will be supported for installation in system-wide locations (such as /usr/local, CMake’s default install location).

We hope that this support will make it easier for users to adopt Abseil and for package managers to successfully and easily package Abseil.

For more information on getting Abseil working with CMake, consult our CMake (...)

Automated Upgrade Tooling for Abseil
▻https://abseil.io/blog/20181221-upgrade-tooling

By Alex Strelnikov, Abseil Engineer

As we promised when we released our Compatibility Guidelines, we have developed a process for announcing and handling any API-breaking changes we may need to make within the Abseil code base. Our C++ Automated Upgrade guide outlines this process, which consists of clang-tidy tooling and associated communication regarding the change. A list of all such tools will be listed on our Upgrade Tools page.

At this time, we are also releasing our first such tool: a clang-tidy check for removing bug-prone implicit conversions in calls to several absl::Duration functions.

As outlined in our upgrade guide, we will always first serve notice of such a tool via this blog, and will also blog once we’ve officially removed the deprecated (...)

Long-Term Support (LTS) Branches
▻https://abseil.io/blog/20180618-lts-branches

By Tom Manshreck, Abseil Tech Writer

Abseil encourages developers to “live at head” but we understand that philosophy may not work for everyone. We are therefore providing snapshots of the Abseil codebase. These snapshots are available as “Long Term Support” (LTS) branches of Abseil, and we intend to provide a new snapshot every 6 months or so.

We pledge to support these LTS snapshots for at least 2 years. If critical bug fixes, such as security issues, require us to change Abseil, we will also change them within any supported LTS snapshot.

NOTE: we don’t want you to think of these snapshots as “versions.” They are simply a snapshot of the codebase at a specific point in time. If you cannot build from source or otherwise live at head, prefer to use the latest LTS branch of Abseil instead. (...)

Abseil’s String Utility APIs—Tom Manshreck
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Abseil’s C++ Tips of the Week for January 26th

Abseil’s String Utility APIs

by Tom Manshreck, Abseil Tech Writer

About the article:

Abseil provides many important string utilities such as StrCat(), StrSplit() and StrJoin(). Read the tips that introduced these APIs at Google and explain how to use them now at ▻https://abseil.io/tips/3 ▻https://abseil.io/tips/10 , ▻https://abseil.io/tips/36 and ▻https://abseil.io/tips/59.

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