Re: [boost] [utility] Moving addressof out of Boost.Utility

Subject: Re: [boost] [utility] Moving addressof out of Boost.Utility
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-05-17 18:19:53

On Saturday 17 May 2014 14:14:19 Ahmed Charles wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 15:22:37 -0700
> > From: glen.fernandes_at_[hidden]
> > To: boost_at_[hidden]
> > Subject: Re: [boost] [utility] Moving addressof out of Boost.Utility
> > 
> > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Peter Dimov wrote:
> > > Andrey's suggested approach of tackling things from the other side and
> > > removing everything from Utility that depends on something other than
> > > Config also deserves consideration.
> > 
> > I think I drew the wrong conclusions from the earlier discussion about
> > Utility (when you moved Assert out). Utility continuing to live on,
> > for components that have only Config dependencies sounds OK too. I had
> > concerns about taking a [conditional, upon
> > BOOST_NO_CXX11_STD_ADDRESSOF] dependency on Utility because it was a
> > generic utility/common catch-all library that seemed to have many
> > dependencies.
> 
> How far are we from the goal of having utility only depend on Boost.Config?
> Is help needed in this area, if it's the direction we wish to go?

There was this discussion with the needed steps:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/247282/focus=247309

I think, the situation hasn't changed since then.