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

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-23 21:42:56

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:14:57 -0500, Beman Dawes wrote
> My prediction is that it will be four to six years before all the 
> compilers boost users care about ship with the full tr1 in the box. 

Wow, I sure hope you're wrong.  That's an awful long time considering that
they have open implementations to use as a starting point.  

> So during that time period it will be a real service to users if we 
> provide major portions of the TR. 

Agreed.

> John's approach looks like a good 
> way to do that, although so far I've only read the docs but not 
> actually tried it in practice.

One thing I just realized that isn't covered in John's docs is how libraries
that depend on the tr1 libs need to cope with this change.  I'm thinking of
libs that depend on shared_ptr (serialization, date-time in 1.33) or function
(signals, thread), etc.  Seems like these will need to be modified follow the
user configuration of the appropriate headers -- at least where for
interfaces.  It might be ok if the dependency is an implementation detail, but
probably would be best if all could be switched over.

Jeff