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

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-04 21:27:45

Douglas Gregor wrote:
> 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.

Good. Making source-incompatible changes for 1.35.0 isn't acceptable.

--Beman