Re: [boost] [feature freeze] range issue

From: Thorsten Ottosen (tottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-17 19:11:29

Pavol Droba wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:30:06AM -0500, David Abrahams wrote:

>>>IIUC, there were issues in the customization interface and both issues 
>>>and fixes were discussed at length on the mailing lists. It seems very 
>>>bad to have them wrong for another Boost release. 
>>
>>If it's just about naming in the customization interface, I don't
>>think that's serious enough to hold up a release.  If it's something
>>deeper, then somebody had better explain it to us.

> As far as I know, the most important/problematic change deals with character arrays.
> This change is important, but it will have quite a large impact on the
> string algorithm library.

Right. All we have now is a deprecation warning in the docs.

Even though most code is simply a refactoring of old code, I do suspect 
that any commit will require help from people with
challenged compilers.

-Thorsten