Re: [boost] Gauging interest in patch submissions

Subject: Re: [boost] Gauging interest in patch submissions
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-09-28 13:38:17

on Wed Sep 28 2011, Marshall Clow <mclow.lists-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sep 28, 2011, at 8:48 AM, Brett Lentz wrote:
>
>> Hi all -
>> 
>> I'm a new addition to the list. I joined because I wanted to get some
>> feedback on whether the Boost community is interested in accepting some
>> patches from another project.
>
> [snip]
>
>> 2. Adding backtrace and system_error_code support.
>> 
>> This adds additional exception information to boost::thread_exception,
>> boost::thread_resource_error, and boost::thread_interrupted that allows
>> Passenger to dump a full backtrace all the way up its stack.
>> 
>> This change is relatively straightforward and seems like it would
>> benefit a number of users.
>
> This would be of great interest to me - but not there.
> In boost::exception, instead.
>
> Making it work cross-platform is the trick. ;-)

As long as it's in principle port-ABLE it doesn't need to be fully
port-ED.

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Dave Abrahams
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