Becoming the new maintainer of Boost.Functional/Factory (value_factory and factory)

From: Glen Fernandes (glen.fernandes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-08-26 22:01:57

Tobias (see forwarded e-mail below) has kindly agreed to allow me to
become the maintainer of boost::factory and boost::value_factory (in
Boost.Functional). I'll be revising the implementation of both for the
next Boost (1.72) release, to:

* Support r-value arguments
* Use variadic templates to support arbitrary arguments
* Support allocators that are final
* Support allocators that use non-raw (fancy) pointers
* Support BOOST_NO_EXCEPTIONS environments
* Improve compilation times (drop Boost.Preprocessor usage)

I'll add myself to the appropriate repository teams and update the
library information accordingly.

Glen

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: T.Schwinger <tschwinger_at_[hidden]>
Date: Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 5:38 AM
Subject: Re: Maintaining Boost.Functional value_factory and factory
To: Glen Fernandes <glen.fernandes_at_[hidden]>

Hi Glen,

On 25.08.19 19:46, Glen Fernandes wrote:
> I'd like to assume maintenance of factory/value_factory in
> Boost.Functional. Among other things, update them to support r-value
> references (when the compiler supports it), as well as simplify the
> implementation for when the compiler supports variadic templates.
> Along with other work going forward.
[...]
> If you have no objections let me know.

No objections - to the contrary: I'm grateful. Thank you for taking care
of it!

Best,
Toby