Re: Boost.Compat

From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-04-27 16:20:56

On Apr 27, 2023, at 8:31 AM, Glen Fernandes via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 11:24 AM Peter Dimov via Boost <
> boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
>> It would be nice if we had a dedicated place in Boost where to
>> put these, to avoid the need for everyone reimplementing a
>> private copy.
>> 
>> At the moment, some of these have gone into Core, for lack of
>> anywhere else, and we now have a <latch> contribution (which I
>> encouraged):
>> 
>> https://github.com/boostorg/core/pull/144
>> 
>> However, Core is not quite the right place for these components.
>> 
>> So my suggestion is to create a separate library/repo, Boost.Compat
>> (boostorg/compat, namespace boost::compat) for them.
>> 
>> Thoughts? (Be sure to read the discussion in the PR as well.)
>> 
> 
> 
> For the rest of the list:   I'm in favor of this (as my response in the
> Core thread indicates).

There’s a lot of this kind of stuff in Boost.Algorithm

Boost/algorithm/cxx11, for example.

— Marshall