Re: [boost] [random] geometric_distribution backwards compatibility

Subject: Re: [boost] [random] geometric_distribution backwards compatibility
From: Jeremiah Willcock (jewillco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-25 00:00:11

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Steven Watanabe wrote:

> AMDG
>
> On 1/24/2011 1:30 PM, Jeremiah Willcock wrote:
>> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Steven Watanabe wrote:
>> 
>>>> Since you
>>>> state that you will be moving things around, you are likely to be
>>>> deprecating the versions in boost::, and so the change in
>>>> geometric_distribution would fit into the same category.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Okay. Everyone who's spoken up seems to favor this,
>>> so I've gone with it. I had to do the same for
>>> lognormal_distribution as well.
>> 
>> Could you please post to the list when you get the renaming and this fix
>> committed? I would like to update my code (in Boost) to match.
>> 
>
> It's done in the trunk, but you might want to
> hold off on updating your code.  I don't want
> to merge this to the release branch until I've
> gotten everything updated and I still have
> half a dozen distributions to update.

Should I wait to update code that is itself in the trunk?

-- Jeremiah Willcock