Re: [boost] [range] #11202: boost.sort header conflicts with boost.range header

Subject: Re: [boost] [range] #11202: boost.sort header conflicts with boost.range header
From: James E. King III (jking_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-08-29 02:16:27

On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 10:31 PM Steven Ross via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/11202 has been sitting for years.
> The "using range::sort" causing the namespace pollution needs to be
> deleted, and then everything depending on that inside boost needs to
> be fixed.  This will break people dependent on the namespace
> pollution, but that's the only way to clean it up.  Is anyone willing
> to take on this cleanup?
>
> Is there a good way to identify cross-library dependency breakages in
> situations like this so they can be fixed?
>

Thanks for bringing attention to this.

If you do not get any satisfactory answer from maintainers of the libraries
mentioned
then let us know, so the CMT can reach out and if needed assume
responsibility for
maintaining any abandoned work.

- Jim