Re: [boost] [test] Trunk broken: What happened to test_exec_monitor?

Subject: Re: [boost] [test] Trunk broken: What happened to test_exec_monitor?
From: Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-10-04 18:59:55

Lars Viklund <zao <at> acc.umu.se> writes:

> How are these things "deprecated"? Shouldn't deprecated functionality
> being used result in rather violent and blatantly obvious compiler
> noise?

Ummm. How can I do this for deprecated macro or namespace?
 
> It seems like all users of them have been completely unaware of their
> deprecation. Was this only via docs/comments?

I can probably dig this out. but the was an announcement on a list here and at
some point this was part of release notes (these disappeared once I reworked
docs to new format). In new documentation these are not even mentioned.
 
> To me it seems that the underlying cause isn't really removing
> deprecated things (which one might consider they have the right to do
> eventually), but that things that are deprecated are not known enough to
> be.

It's possible. Even I forgot about some of them already ;)

Gennadiy