Re: [boost] Boost.TR1: A first cut.

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-23 19:21:19

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:42:52 -0000, John Maddock wrote
> I've just uploaded to the new sandbox-vault a first cut of a 
> Boost.TR1 library, currently it only handles chapter 2 of the TR -

Since no one is answering, I'll take a shot...
 
> so basically only shared_ptr is usable at present, but now that I've 
> got the basic framework sorted I should be able to wiz through the 
> rest of the TR in fairly short order.
> 
> The zip is at: 
>
http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/vault/index.php?&direction=0&order=&directory=tr1
> And the docs are online at: 
> http://freespace.virgin.net/boost.regex/tr1/tr1.html

I browsed these -- they look good.

> At this stage I'm just trying to get some feedback on:
> 
> 1) Is this worth doing?

Seems like it will be worthwhile if
1) it is done ahead of vendor tr1 packages
2) it is better in some way then vendor packages

I would imagine in the future people will prefer to use the tr1 bundled with
their std library of choice unless one of the conditions above hold true.
Also, it won't be a complete tr1 without the hash stuff, so that will need to
be noted (I'm assuming that wouldn't get into boost in time). Interestingly,
there might be an argument for a boost distribution with the tr1 libraries
removed from the boost package since they would be 'obsolete' -- argument
being to avoid confusion for developers on project xyz we want to remove these.

>...snip questions...
>
> Thanks in advance for any feedback you may have,

It wasn't much, but maybe it will kickstart some other people to take a look ;-)

Jeff