RE: [boost] 1.15.0 Posted on web site

From: Reid Sweatman (borderland_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-06-18 00:06:18

My take would be to byte the bullet and forgo backward compatibility, but I
always tend to think that way.  Of course, as yet, I don't have too heavy an
investment in code using this, so I'm guessing others might feel
differently.

Reid Sweatman
Software Engineer (I gets to toot the whistle!)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Abrahams [mailto:abrahams_at_[hidden]]
> Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 11:42 AM
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [boost] 1.15.0 Posted on web site
>
>
>
>
> > 1.15.0 is up on www.boost.org:
> >
> > Random Number Library from Jens Maurer added. Updated utility library
> > operators eliminates code bloat. Minor additions to config.hpp and
> cast.hpp
> > for Microsoft compilers.
> >
> > That's the good news.
> >
> > The bad news is that since no regression testing is currently
> being done,
> > we really don't know what works with what.  Some limited testing on my
> part
> > shows far too many problems for comfort.  Most are probably caused by
> > simple configuration issues.
>
>
> And one more piece of bad news:
>
> 1. the iterator_helpers are still broken because with a non-const
> value type
> and a const pointer type you get a non-const iterator, because:
> 2. dereferenceable<> is arguably still broken because it takes a
> value_type
> parameter instead of a pointer (type) parameter
>
> Fixing problem 2 involves breaking backward-compatibility. I don't think
> there's a clever fix for this problem. I'm inclined to fearlessly make the
> fix, but I need guidance from the group on what to do about it.
>
> -Dave
>
>
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