Re: [Boost-users] Pointer Container Library changes in 1.66.0

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Pointer Container Library changes in 1.66.0
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-04-05 16:25:17

On 5 April 2018 at 16:11, Thorsten Ottosen via Boost-users
<boost-users_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> It's the fact that one of the merged changes was to inherit privately from
> the clone_allocator which in turn forbids the use of final classes as
> clone_allocator types.

Oh, that's something I haven't thought about. There are quite a few
places in boost where inheritance from generic types is used,
presumably they've all got the same problem. I'm not sure if there's a
good way to handle this.