Loïc Joly wrote:
Hi all,
The review of Joel de Guzmans and Dan Marsdens Phoenix V2 library starts today, September 21st 2008, and will end on September 30th. I really hope to see your vote and your participation in the discussions on the Boost mailing lists! Some questions that a very quick look at the doc did not answer (please
Hartmut Kaiser a écrit : point me to the right place if such a place exists):
- If this library is accepted, will that make other boost libraries deprecated? (from the introduction, I'm thinking of function, lambda and bind, maybe some others?)
boost.function: No. phoenix has no such facility. Don't confuse with phoenix.function. boost.bind: No. bind has its place. It's light(er) and is sufficient for many tasks. At the very least we should work towards a unification of the placeholders and interoperability. boost.lambda: Depends. The original plan was for a Lambda/Phoenix merger with Phoenix2 as the basis. Eseentially, it is possible for Phoenix2(3) to be the new Lambda. I outlined a plan sometime ago: >> One of the obstacles towards merger is that Lambda has some >> quirks of its own that makes it difficult to provide full backwards >> compatibility. Eric ported Phoenix 2.0 to proto, making it Phoenix >> 3.0. In the course of the development, Eric and I seem to both >> coming to the conclusion that the best route is to leave the >> Lambda codebase alone and make Phoenix 3.0 the new lambda >> (i.e. lambda 2.0). And, similar to what we did with Spirit2, >> we can have an interim release that bundles both the old lambda >> and the new. With this approach, code that uses Lambda should >> should not do anything special. Users who want to take advantage >> of the features of Lambda-2 (aka Phoenix) can upgrade with some >> minimal code tweaks. If this is an acceptable solution to all >> parties involved (Jaakko?) Yes, Jaakko is in agreement with this approach: Jaakko: > My first reply didn't make it to the list. > Yes, this would be a good arrangement. Regards, -- Joel de Guzman http://www.boostpro.com http://spirit.sf.net