Re: [Boost-users] [phoenix] Staus of phoenix

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [phoenix] Staus of phoenix
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-18 10:34:45

Eric Niebler wrote:
> Edward Diener wrote:
>> Hartmut Kaiser wrote:
>>>> Is phoenix an official Boost library ? I do not see it listed among the
>>>> Boost libraries for 1.40 or 1.41 although I do see it in the pdf
>>>> documentation for Boost libraries put together by John Maddock.
>>>
>>> Phoenix is an official Boost library (see:
>>> http://lists.boost.org/boost-announce/2008/10/0205.php). AFAIK it's 
>>> being
>>> currently rewritten before it gets added as a full citizen to the 
>>> Boost SVN.
>>> For now please use Phoenix V2 which is located under the Spirit 
>>> directory.
>>
>> If Phoenix is an official Boost library should not its documentation 
>> be listed in the libraries page of a Boost distribution ? Otherwise 
>> there is no indication it even exists, except for an occasional 
>> mention in the Spirit docs. That can not be a good thing either for 
>> end-user's or the Phoenix developers.
> 
> IIRC, Phoenix was reviewed and accepted on the condition that it be 
> reimplemented on top of Proto. That hasn't happened yet, and so Phoenix 
> has not been merged to trunk. The old version of Phoenix still exists as 
> a part Spirit.

OK, so Phoenix is not an official Boost library yet. That at least 
explains why there is no trace of its documentation in Boost.