[boost] Library TR draft available

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-09 20:39:16

The latest draft of the C++ Standard Library Technical Report is now 
available at 
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1711.pdf

There may be editorial (non-substantiative) changes to the final version of 
the TR document, but this latest draft is believed to be final in terms of 
technical content. Thus it should be safe for implementors or users to 
write code based on this latest draft.

It will be several years before most compilers come with a full 
implementation of the TR. But some vendors (Metrowerks, for example) are 
already shipping a few TR components. That brings up the question of what 
Boost code does during the transition.

To insure Boost code works with various TR implementations, some Boost code 
will want to use the compiler vendor's version of the TR if the TR 
component required is available, but otherwise will want to use Boost 
equivalent code. How do we handle that?  The TR doesn't provide in 
configuration macros, so I guess we will have to roll our own.

--Beman