Re: [boost] [Boost.Sync] no master branch?

Subject: Re: [boost] [Boost.Sync] no master branch?
From: Eric Niebler (eniebler_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-16 11:50:55

On 01/15/2014 02:06 PM, Andrey Semashev wrote:
> ... decoupling from the time units is desirable because (a) in many 
> cases you don't need time units with synchronization yet you still 
> introduce dependency on Boost.Chrono and Boost.DateTime

But in many cases you *do* care about time (e.g. wait with a time-out).
How will you present a unified, consistent interface when you can't
express some fundamental operations?

> and (b) there is no way to use use e.g. std::chrono with
> Boost.Thread without manually converting to Boost time units.

This sounds like a failure of generic design to me. There should be a
Duration concept, and the APIs should work with any concrete type that
models that concept. That would also solve the dependency problem, since
the actual concrete types don't need to be mentioned.

Eric