Re: [boost] Incorporating N2308 into boost::function

From: Douglas Gregor (dgregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-01 23:22:52

On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 13:18 -0700, Eric Niebler wrote:
> Emil Dotchevski wrote:
> > Any chance of incorporating
> > 
> > http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2308.html
> > 
> > into boost::function for the 1.35.1 release? Here is a link to my
> > implementation, including a SVN patch file:
> > 
> > http://www.revergestudios.com/boost-function/
> > 
> > I've tested with MSVC 8 and 9, and with gcc 3.4.4.
> 
> 
> Funny, we haven't even released 1.35 yet, and you're already assuming 
> we'll need a point release. ;-) It's too late to add new features for 
> 1.35, and a point release is for bug fixes only, so I'd imagine the 
> earliest somthing like this can go in would be 1.36.

Yes, especially since Function is depended upon by several other
libraries. For 1.35, we'll put in a warning noting that the next version
will have a source-incompatible change (the removal of the Allocator
parameter) to bring it into line with C++0x semantics. We'll make the
change in 1.36.

  - Doug