[boost] Re: Deprecation/removal of libraries

From: Daryle Walker (dwalker07_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-24 00:22:19

On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 10:12 AM, Douglas Gregor wrote:

> I'd like to deprecate or remove two libraries:
>
> - min_rand has been the only entry in our list of "Obsolete Libraries" 
> for quite some time. Random is quite mature, so let's just eliminate 
> min_rand now.

Doesn't one of the classes in Boost.Random have the same distribution 
as min_rand?  If so, we can do a transition by changing min_rand to a 
typedef of the updated class.

> - compose has been surpassed by bind to the point where we dissuade 
> users from using compose if they ask, and tell them to use bind 
> instead. Let's deprecate this in 1.31.0 and remove it in 1.32.0.

Maybe we can do a similar typedef transition here too?

Daryle