Re: [boost] Breaking existing libraries

Subject: Re: [boost] Breaking existing libraries
From: Matthias Schabel (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-24 18:18:37

This is a somewhat tangential thought, but ... what if each release of  
the Boost libraries
was put into its own namespace, so we have code in

namespace boost_1_38_0 { ... }

rather than in namespace boost. Then, in end user code, you just need :

using namespace boost = boost_1_38_0;

It seems like this would allow certain deprecated Boost components  
(those that are not too strongly coupled
to the rest of Boost) to be used at the same time as more recent  
components from other libraries :

using boost_1_32_0::iterator_range;

iterator_range<some_iterator>	rng;

which might sidestep some of the recent iterator_range anarchy, and  
simplify other major transitions. N.B. I
haven't really thought about the ramifications of doing this, so the  
idea might be completely unworkable in
practice.

Matthias