Re: [Boost-users] [review] Fast track review of Boost.Utility/Singleton - rejected for now

These are very sad news. I started to use it in my current project and am highly satisfied with it for my current needs. I hope that the interface (accessing the singleton) would remain the same. With Kind Regards, Ovanes On Jan 29, 2008 1:03 PM, John Torjo wrote:

Hi all,

We've gotten a lot of feedback on the Boost.Utility/Singleton. It's clear that such an addition would be beneficial to Boost, but I've chosen to reject the library at this time.

Summary: - 4 positive reviews - 4 negative reviews

Phil Endecott - yes Nat Goodspeed - yes Dherring[@]ll[]mit[]edu - yes Ingolf Steinbach - yes Anthony Williams - no Gennady - no Pierre-Jules Tremblay - no Michael Marcin - no

The main concern was that the library is not flexible enough, and that it imposes too many things on the users (like, if BOOST_HAS_THREADS is defined, the singleton is automatically thread-safe).

I would like to see this into Boost, so I hope Tobias will update the library, given all this feedback, and I would suggest another review in 2-3 months. I'd like to be the review manager then as well, if Tobias will still want me.

Suggestions: * Should use policies to specify creation/destruction, access to singleton, resurection For creation/destruction, one should be able to have singleton, singleton< synchronized<T> >, singleton< thread_specific<T> > * example for DLL support * more detailed docs

As for the next review of the library, I will talk to Tobias, and let the review wizard know. Thanks to Tobias, for the lib, and to all that participated to the review!

Best, John - Review Manager -

-- http://John.Torjo.com -- C++ expert ... call me only if you want things done right

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