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

From: Yuval Ronen (ronen_yuval_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-11 05:49:18

Howard Hinnant wrote:
> 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.

Thank *you* for the enormous effort you have put in this, for the 
benefit of all of us.