Re: [boost] Re: Deprecation/removal of libraries

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-27 15:34:51

At 01:22 AM 8/24/2003, Daryle Walker wrote:

 >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.

Yes, IIRC the same generator is available. But I don't think there is any 
need for a transition; we've been signalling for years that min_rand was 
due for removal.

 >
 >> - 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?

At least mark the library deprecated for a release or two, with a pointer 
to the replacement functionality.

--Beman