Re: [boost] [random] Major update

Subject: Re: [boost] [random] Major update
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-17 15:59:44

AMDG

On 03/17/2011 12:41 PM, Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr. wrote:
> On 3/17/2011 11:47 AM, Steven Watanabe wrote:
>> I've nearly finished preparing Boost.Random for the
>> next release. Here's a summary of the changes.
>> I still have some minor clean-up, but it's mostly
>> stable. I'd greatly appreciate it if anyone wants
>> to take a look at it. If you have issues with any
>> of this, speak up now, while it can still be changed
>> relatively painlessly.
> [...]
>
> Are the old classes and interfaces officially deprecated, then?

Once it's released, yeah. They'll stay
around for a while though.

> I would guess that the documentation will have migration information 
> to update client code to use the new classes, interfaces, etc.?

For the most part, I expect the changes to user code to be
* Use boost::random::xxx instead of boost::xxx

The bulk of the changes just add new features.

> I don't use Boost.Random other than generating uniform random 
> floats/doubles at the moment, so no issues here :/

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe