Re: [boost] [mpl] multiset

Subject: Re: [boost] [mpl] multiset
From: Stephen Kelly (hello_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-02-28 04:56:33

Edward Diener wrote:

> On 2/27/2015 3:54 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
>> Edward Diener wrote:
>>
>>> A while back Stephen Kelly specified changes to MPL to get rid of  hacks
>>> for old compilers that nobody should be using anymore, and which would
>>> simplify the MPL code a bit so that new development could more easily be
>>> done with the code. But these changes were never made
>>
>> The removal of the old code was committed (see 'gitk steveire' in
>> mpl.git).
>>
>> Daniel James reverted it.
>>
>> Feel free to revert the revert.
> 
> I am not the maintainer of MPL, although I have been granted rights to
> change it. I don't think MPL has a primary maintainer any more so any
> large change needs a consensus AFAICS.
> 
> The consensus appeared to be that MPL should keep the old code. I agreed
> with you instead. But I am not going to go against the consensus of
> others unless there is an updated general consensus that agrees that MPL
> need no longer support the old compilers that it does.

You can consider what I wrote to be an invitation to anyone/everyone on this 
list to decide to coordinate.

Good luck!

Steve.