RE: [boost] Digest Number 1085

From: James Curran/MVP (jamescurran_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-12-27 23:15:44

>>   4) After inclusion in boost, SigC++ will live on as an LGPL
component
>>      until such time at it makes the stl standard.  Which
>>      means contributions to it will not necessarily go back to boost
>>      if done by someone other than myself.
>This may be a maintenance nightmare, but it's not the first time this
has 
>come up. Loki would have the same problem, and I'm sure we'd find a way
to 
>deal with it.

        Um... Don't we already have (and are dealing with) that problem
with thing like heap_map<> being added to the HP/SGI/AT&T STL after it
was made part of the C++ Standard?

    Truth, 
     James Curran