Re: [boost] Breaking existing libraries

Subject: Re: [boost] Breaking existing libraries
From: Thorsten Ottosen (thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-23 17:50:54

Dave Handley skrev:
>>
>> I have looked it up, and its not documented. Period.
>>
>> Anyway, I'm sorry you feel the way you do. I don't intentionally try
>> to break people's code, and I have put an enourmous effort into the 
>> code I've submitted to boost.
>>
>> FWIW, boost.range is not changing anymore.
> 
> Unfortunately, you've already broken my confidence - unless of course, 
> we can come up with a decent compromise on this which seems further away 
> by the hour.

If the compromise does not include going back to the old behavior for 
boost::iterator_range, then I'm open to suggestions (If we did that, how 
would we explain that situation to all those that want the current 
behavior?).

-Thorsten