[boost] Interest in adding support for the Bloomberg Standard Library

Subject: [boost] Interest in adding support for the Bloomberg Standard Library
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-08-27 16:40:55

Bloomberg has its own C++ standard library, BSL, which sits on top of 
another standard library but replaces containers with their own versions.
The BSL containers are somewhat similar to Boost.Container's: they 
provide stateful allocators, as well as backport some C++11 extensions 
to C++03.

Before I make all the necessary changes and do a pull request, I would 
like to make sure the Boost community would be ok in including support 
for this in Boost.Config.
This library is fairly specific to one company and not used much 
elsewhere, despite being open-source 
(<https://github.com/bloomberg/bde>). We are also trying to phase out 
usage of this library with the 'std' namespace (it can be configured to 
use the 'bsl' namespace instead), but that's likely not going to happen 
anytime soon.

As part as providing support for this in Boost, we would also be 
providing testers, mostly on big iron unix (AIX-powerpc, SunOS-sparc).

Any interest?