Re: [boost] [type_traits] Time to upgrade to "version 2" ?

Subject: Re: [boost] [type_traits] Time to upgrade to "version 2" ?
From: David Stone (david_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-05-17 12:50:12

Conceptually, common_type is a type_trait. We should not be so quick to
worship at the altar of removing dependencies that we compromise logical
design or introduce code duplication. I don't think a dependency-free graph
is necessarily desirable -- the whole reason we have Boost is to create
reusable components.

On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 1:51 AM, John Maddock <jz.maddock_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

>
>
> On 16/05/2015 18:44, Vicente J. Botet Escriba wrote:
>
>> Le 16/05/15 14:03, Peter Dimov a écrit :
>>
>>> Ion Gaztañaga wrote:
>>>
>>>  Is there anything that we could make to make to take away common_type
>>>> dependencies?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Let's just make it its own module and be done with it.
>>>
>> I agreed. John could you extract it for "version 2"? Could I do something?
>>
>>
> I have to be honest, I don't like splitting stuff up, but OK I'll go with
> the flow.  Let's split it.
>
> I've just made a bug fix to develop - when the tests have cycled on that
> I'll merge to release and then merge the new type_traits to develop.  I
> guess immediately after that would be a good time to spin off common_type -
> not sure what the process is?
>
> John.
>
>
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