Re: [boost] Re: what happened to allocators in boost?

From: Gregory Colvin (gregory.colvin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-27 14:04:04

On Wednesday, Aug 27, 2003, at 12:38 America/Denver, E. Gladyshev wrote:
> --- Gregory Colvin <gregory.colvin_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> I agree that these approaches are not ideal, but they could solve
>> your immediate problem, and help us get the experience we need to
>> consider whether and how to improve future releases.
>
> My immediate problem is to ship a C++ template library.
> I'd like to have my users be able to customize
> memory policies (w/o overloading new/delete)
> and I'd like to use boost in my implementation.
> What are my options?

For now, the two I just told you.  Since you don't want to ship
your modifications to Boost the specialization approach may be
best.

Longer term, any other option that someone can design, implement
and get accepted into Boost.