[Boost-users] [TypeIndex 3.0] Review Manager's Report

Subject: [Boost-users] [TypeIndex 3.0] Review Manager's Report
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-05-04 12:00:21

Dear Boost,

The second round of peer review of proposed Boost.TypeIndex finished 
on Wed 30th, and here is the review manager's report. My thanks to 
the five reviewers who took the time and trouble to submit full 
reviews, plus to everyone else who commented.

Votes regarding acceptance: 

4 voted to accept TypeIndex into Boost immediately.

1 voted to accept into Boost with conditions.

Overall: I recommend immediate acceptance into Boost.

Conditions:

1. No one liked the present boost::typeind namespace, almost anything 
else would be better. I see the namespace has already changed in the 
develop branch to boost::typeindex, so I think this is already 
solved.

Other common comments:

* More than one reviewer mentioned how they liked the docs.

* More than one reviewer expressed a desire for an ability to 
programmatically parse through type specifier strings. I agree with 
Antony that that is another library which isn't TypeIndex (something 
Boost.Spirit based which works directly with mangled symbol string 
representations, representing them as a partial AST - preferably also 
with a libclang compatible backend - would be great, but that is a 
totally different library and TypeIndex 3.x provides extensibility 
for such an additional function).

* More than one reviewer sought some method of preventing link if you 
mix up incompatible uses of TypeIndex and/or with RTTI.

Niall

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