Re: [Boost-Users] Variant library or alternative suggestion

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-17 18:56:23

At 08:33 AM 8/17/2003, Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:

 >vivek_arora wrote:
 >> Whats is the status of the variant library which was supposed
 >> to have been approved for inclusion?
 >
 >It's going to be included in the next major Boost release (1.31, 
presumably
 >a couple months away). Meanwhile, you can get the latest version of it 
from
 >the Boost CVS repository - http://www.boost.org/more/download.html#CVS
 >
 >> I was unable to compile the code submitted for review.
 >
 >On which compiler? Anyway, I beleive things have much improved since then 
-
 >http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/resources/cs-win32_metacomm/developer_result_page.html#variant

That's my impression too. When it was first committed to CVS there were 
several compile failures, but the authors then did a lot of work to make 
sure variant works with lots of compilers.

--Beman