Re: [boost] [modularization] Modularizing Boost (modularization)

On 18/10/2013 15:16, Stephen Kelly wrote:

On 10/18/2013 02:19 PM, Beman Dawes wrote:

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On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote:

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Hi there,

my plan for modularizing and modernizing Boost was roughly this:

* Phase 0 - remove dead weight by bumping compiler feature requirements * Phase 1 - move some files around so that the modularized repos form a mostly directed graph * Phase 2 - Form some kind of 'boost core library' or 'boost feature normalization library' from the guts of existing libraries like type_traits, static_assert, config mpl and utilities. * Phase 3 - Try to port the mpl to variadic templates so that the dependency on Boost.PP is not needed when variadic templates are available.

Herb Sutter has pointed out that approximately 15 months from now all widely used compilers and their libraries will be C++11/14 compliant, modulo residual bugs. Widely used is irrelevant on this list. See the responses to threads I've started.

Versionning exist for a reason. Modern boost development using C++11 and forward should move to a 2.0 version. Old compilers will be supported in the 1.x branch. End of the story. I cannot stress enough how i feel important for the whoel library to embrace C++1z and champion it as we did with C++03 and proper pratccies years ago and your efforts are more than a great step in this direction.