[boost] Re: "Non-standard" bits of SGI STL

From: Dave Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-09-06 10:31:11

> The SGI STL implementation includes a few non-standard extensions (notably
> slist and hash_map). Would there be any point in extracting those
> implementation (assuming that is possible) and putting them into boost, so
> that they are available for people not using the SGI STL?
>
> I'll probably do this for my own purposes anyway - would adding it to Boost
> be reasonable?

IMO, it probably would be. There is another project in this same space which
would be useful. The next STLPort release is going to include a
re-architected debug mode which is actually built on wrappers for the
standard containers. People might be interested in using their platform's
STL in debug mode, which would be possible if the wrappers were extracted.

-Dave