[boost] Re: tuple patch (constructing from a pair)

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-14 12:23:19

Joel de Guzman <joel_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> "Fredrik Blomqvist" <fredrik_blomqvist_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> 
>>>This made me remember my own old post about tuples & pairs:
>>>http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg64193.php
>>>i.e to make the tuple::get<> accessor support pairs also.
>>>(actual patches: http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg05245.php)
>>>
>>>I spoke to Jaakko about this at the time and he was postivite, but it seems
>>>it ended up in the backlog.. Myself I almost forgot about it during the
>>>summer.
>>>Perhaps this could be reconsidered?
>> I think the fusion tuples are already TR1-compatible (?) and we are
>> supposed to transition over to them immediately (?) anyway.  Joel?
>
> Yes. Fusion has been here with us for almost 2 years now and
> the code is very mature. I've already used it in a couple of projects
> and it is holding up pretty well. If possible, I'd like to
> transition to it as soon as possible. I tried to contact Jaakko
> a few times. I'm not sure if he received my emails. The
> last time we got in touch, he's very enthusiastic about it.
> In fact, he co-authored the tuples part of Fusion (along
> with Jeremiah Willcock.

Maybe it's time for Jaakko to simply transfer maintainership of the
tuples library to Joel, so he can proceed?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
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