[boost] [afio] AFIO review postponed till Monday

Subject: [boost] [afio] AFIO review postponed till Monday
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-07-16 06:36:36

Just a quick heads up that the AFIO review is postponed till Monday 
to give me more time to refactor the docs to match the final API.

Some quick notes on what will be presented for review, so there are 
no surprises:

1. I won't have the time to rewrite the code examples into C++ 1z 
coroutines before the review unfortunately, so you'll get a warning 
sign in the docs saying that is coming. The code example this matters 
most to is the find regex in files example as the code is very messy 
(full of callback handlers) without coroutines.

2. The API presented is expected to be a final API, but the 
implementation will be a messy conglomeration of the existing mature 
dispatch engine with the new lightweight future-promises. In other 
words, code will compile and run, but the internal engine is going to 
be completely replaced eventually as I debug lightweight 
future-promises. As lightweight future-promises is all brand new code 
mostly written between 12am and 4am each night since May after a work 
day, I don't hugely trust it enough to present you guys with an 
engine based on it. Just because it passes a conformance suite 
doesn't mean it is without quirks - plus, I discovered some surprises 
in the Concurrency TS about which I'll need to get some 
clarifications.

As I mentioned though, the user facing API will be final, as 
promised. And it does use monads and lightweight future-promise.

3. Minimum compilers will unfortunately be GCC 4.8, clang 3.2 and 
VS2015. Sorry about that, lightweight monadic future-promises 
substantially bumped the compiler requirements, even as it is I have 
several GCC 4.8 specific workarounds.

Niall

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