Re: [boost] Legacy for compose?

From: Jonathan Wakely (cow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-01 05:10:37

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:56:46AM +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:30:40PM -0400, Daryle Walker wrote:
> 
> > Looking at the main index.html file in CVS, it looks like the old Compose
> > library will be going away.  However at least one book, _The C++ Standard
> > Library: A Tutorial and Reference_ by Nicolai M. Josuttis in 1999, assumes
> > that Compose will still be there (and improved over what's in the book).
> > Shouldn't our library list page permanently keep a note over what happened
> > to the Compose library (and what should replace it)?
> 
> That sounds very sensible to me.
> 
> At the least the pages for the lib should be there as they might be cited
> in several books and articles.
> 
> libs/compose.html could still redirect to libs/compose/index.html,
> which could just say:
> 
>     This library was deprecated in favor of the Bind or Lambda libraries
>     and has been removed from Boost.
> 
> (as attached file does)
> 
> jon
> 
> -- 
> "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
> 	- David Hume

> /It2gYh: Permission denied

hmm ... dunno what happened there ... HTML attachment stripped?

take two, index.htm renamed to index.txt

jon

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