Re: [boost] Deprecation and Boost

From: Roland Schwarz (roland.schwarz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-05 04:36:58

AlisdairM wrote:
> It has been agreed that several platforms will be deprecated in this
> version of Boost.  To support that I have added a warning to the
> Borland config to alert anyone using old versions of this platform that
> it is being deprecated and this is the last compatible release.
> 
> What I notice is the warning gets annoying pretty quickly.

While I think deprecation announcement is useful in general, current 
practice possibly is too restricting. What I would rather like too see 
is a library component specific deprecation.

Why should e.g. support for threading lib for an old compiler where it 
was known good be deprecated? In my opinion the respective library 
maintainer should be in charge of warning the user that the library is 
evolving into a direction where support of a specific compiler will be 
dropped in a future release. Doing this at a global scope does not allow 
this.

What do you think?

Roland