Re: [boost] [RFC] Header/namespace policy draft

From: Anthony Williams (anthony_w.geo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-03 10:38:53

Joel de Guzman <joel_at_[hidden]> writes:

> * Non-core libraries may place a single consolidated convenience 
>   header in boost/, forwarding to files of the form 
>   boost/<libraryname>/<header>.hpp.  Regardless, their documented
>   public components are not in boost/ or namespace boost::

What about boost.thread? Though the "general use" header is boost/thread.hpp,
and the other headers are in boost/thread/xyz.hpp, the public interface is and
always has been in namespace boost::, and changing this now would be a
breaking change.

Anthony
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