Re: [boost] "peer reviewed" - Rights and responsibilities of maintainers

Subject: Re: [boost] "peer reviewed" - Rights and responsibilities of maintainers
From: Vinnie Falco (vinnie.falco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-10-17 13:59:42

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 6:12 AM James E. King III via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Perhaps working towards removing the singleton from the implementation would
> be a worthy course of action.  It has come up often in pull requests over
> the last few years, correct?  What problem(s) does the singleton solve in the
> library, and could those issues be solved in a different way?

Great minds think alike! There was a nice discussion yesterday on
Cpplang Slack of why the singletons exist, in the #boost channel
(between me and Peter D) you should sign up and access the history:

http://slack.cpp.al

Regards