Re: [Boost-users] Signals & Slots

From: Hagen Möbius (hagen.moebius_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-17 19:22:48

Doug Gregor wrote:

>
> On Nov 17, 2004, at 11:34 AM, Foster, Gareth wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the reply Doug, do you mind at all if I forward this to 
>> the GTKmm
>> mailing list?
>
>
> Go ahead.
>
>>  I would like to ask them what they think of your
>> implementation. I hope to use GTKmm (which uses libsigc++ of course), 
>> and I
>> think boost is great, so I'd be interested to see if maybe the GTKmm 
>> devs
>> could be using boost more etc. I'm sure you get the idea, main thing 
>> is, I
>> don't want it to look like I am trying to start a slaging match 
>> (hence me
>> asking first) :)
>
>
> I would suggest learning quite a bit about both libsigc++ and 
> Boost.Signals before you try to suggest to anyone that they make such 
> a switch, because it will surely require a significant amount of 
> effort and may change the semantics of GTKmm considerably.
>
>     Doug

No chance! Although I don't fully comply, Murray Cumming considers boost 
to be API instable. That is no foundation for a GUI toolkit.

Hagen.

PS: Yep, I tried it.