Re: [boost] [Lockfree review] Meta-comments

Subject: Re: [boost] [Lockfree review] Meta-comments
From: Phil Endecott (spam_from_boost_dev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-07-24 13:38:26

Dave,

Dave Abrahams wrote:
> on Thu Jul 21 2011, Tim Blechmann <tim-AT-klingt.org> wrote:
>
>>> I think Boost.Atomic is an
>>> urgently-required library.  What can we all do to help it get submitted
>>> and accepted as soon as possible?
>>
>> the original author is quite unresponsive. i haven't heard from him since early 
>> this year, and he did not repond to any emails i've sent him.
>>
>> imo, a few people should gather and adopt the library, because i fear that it 
>> has been orphaned ...
>> then we would only need a review manager and a time slot.
>
> And, let me reiterate: until that time, you can include this
> functionality in a detail namespace of Lockfree.

If Tim did that then we would need to review it now, right?

(For correctness, anyway.  Not necessarily for its interface.  But that 
doesn't make much difference in practice, since the interface is 
supposed to be the std:: one.)

Phil.