[boost] Re: Legacy for compose?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-07 16:21:05

Daryle Walker <darylew_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On 9/1/04 6:10 AM, "Jonathan Wakely" <cow_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> 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)
>
>> hmm ... dunno what happened there ... HTML attachment stripped?
>> 
>> take two, index.htm renamed to index.txt
>
> I've added a note to the master library list.  I noticed that my CVS copy of
> Boost doesn't have any Boost.Compose stuff in it.  I have my settings to
> create or destroy directories as needed.  That means that all the files for
> Boost.Compose have been deleted.  We would have to resurrect the
> BOOST_ROOT/libs/compose/index.htm file (and its parent directory) before
> editing it.  I'm not that good with CVS yet.
>
> Could someone who is good with CVS resurrect the file?  (Or let me know how
> to do it myself.)  

Just cvs add the file and it will come back.

HTH,
-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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