Re: [boost] [iterator][range] Synchronization on 'master'

Subject: Re: [boost] [iterator][range] Synchronization on 'master'
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-10-16 11:10:16

On 10/15/15 9:50 PM, Edward Diener wrote:
> I have pushed a number of changes to iterator from 'develop' to 'master'
> for the next release.
>
> A series of these changes on 'develop', by Marcel Raad, is an attempt to
> remove from 'iterator' the use of the deprecated headers
> 'boost/iterator.hpp' and 'boost/detail/iterator.hpp' in favor of using
> 'std::iterator' directly instead of 'boost::iterator' and
> 'std::iterator_traits' and 'std::distance' directly instead of
> 'boost::detail::iterator_traits' and 'boost::detail::distance'.
> Essentially these changes mean that any other library using 'iterator'
> classes would fail if they attempted to refer to 'boost::iterator',
> 'boost::detail::iterator_traits', or 'boost::detail::distance'.

The serialization library depends heavily on functionality only present
in boost/iterator.  This sounds like a recipe for surprises

Robert Ramey