Re: [boost] Ticket #637 - Adjusts mpl::pair concept to be compatible with STL pairs

Subject: Re: [boost] Ticket #637 - Adjusts mpl::pair concept to be compatible with STL pairs
From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-04 02:19:56

On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:08:03 -0500, David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]>  
wrote:

> on Mon Jun 01 2009, Joel Falcou <joel.falcou-AT-u-psud.fr> wrote:
>
>> Steven Watanabe wrote:
>>> It looks like there were patches which got lost when we moved
>>> to trac/svn.  Anyway,
>> Oh ?
>>>
>>> 1) This is not a widely needed feature.
>>> 2) Breaking backwards compatibility is out of the question, IMO.
>>> 3) Preserving backwards compatibility increases the compile time cost  
>>> of using
>>> mpl::pair.
>>>
>> So should we close this as wontfix ?
>
> I guess that's up to Aleksey?

I've added a comment to the ticket asking the original submitter for
clarification of the patch's original motivation (which is not clear
to me).

-- 
Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering