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

From: E. Gladyshev (egladysh_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-27 14:40:05

--- Gregory Colvin <gregory.colvin_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > 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 

No, I certainly cannot ship Boost with my library.
The user may already have Boost installed 
and configured and there are many other issues 
with this approach as well...

> the specialization approach may be
> best.

However if you ever change the details, my specialization
may stop working or worse become unstable. In general, 
it is not a safe approach for a professional library.
Also different users may have different boost 
installations and the list goes on...

I guess I am out of luck with Boost here. :(
You cannot make everybody happy anyway.

BTW:
I'd a bit suprised if the C++ committe
accepts Boost memory management concept 
(or a complete lack of such) as 
an industry standard.

Eugene

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