[boost] Future of Boost.Thread, date-time, and C++0x

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-08 10:24:04

At the Kona meeting (just finished) the standard committee made very 
significant progress on threading for C++0x -- voting in a proposal written by 
Howard H, Beman, Anthony Williams, myself, and others -- subject to wording 
changes to be made by a small drafting committee.  Basically we were in 
agreement on semantics, but even after several late night drafting sessions 
people weren't happy with the standardeze.

While much of the proposal is based on Boost.thread it has some serious 
departures in the way mutexes and guard interfaces work, it's use of date-time 
types for clock/timing interfaces and such.  At this point I feel it would be 
very important to have a reference implementation widely available to Boosters 
and others to play with so that any issues are shaken out while there's still 
time tweak things.  Howard has been maintaining a reference implementation, 
but this is a call out to the broader thread development team (not sure who 
all that is now besides Anthony) to consider how we might formalize this into 
Boost.threads.

Thoughts?

Jeff