Re: Boost.Compat

From: Zach Laine (whatwasthataddress_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-04-27 17:57:57

On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 11:21 AM Marshall Clow via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> 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.

Ha.  Read first, then post, Zach.

Zach