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

From: Howard Hinnant (hinnant_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-10 20:11:39

On Oct 10, 2007, at 12:04 PM, Beman Dawes wrote:

> Yuval Ronen wrote:
>> Jeff Garland wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Will you please post here when a document describing what has been
>> agreed is available (not the standardize, something I can  
>> understand :) )?
>
> Everybody involved in this is working really hard to meet post-meeting
> deadlines. You probably won't see much until the post-meeting mailing
> appears about two weeks from now, and maybe not even then. This has  
> been
> a death-march, particularly for Howard, so please be patient...

No, no! Not dead yet, <gasp> still breathing... <gasp> ;-)

Beman's right.  But we're hanging in there and will endeavor to keep  
everyone informed.  We know this is an important issue to lots of  
people.  And thanks for your continued interest.

-Howard