On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:59 PM, David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
So what happens to the iterators library when it's time for the rewrite I've been planning? I intend, as much as possible, to maintain compatibility with the old interfaces, of course. Is that still a "stable" library?
Maybe put the new library in its own namespace and retain the old version in its own namespace for a release or two with it being marked deprecated in the documentation? A macro could be provided that alternately brought the different versions into the boost namespace. Of course it would bring the new library into the boost namespace by default. This may be too much of a burden on the library writer, and it's also getting into specifics when I think the discussion is mostly about processes at a high level, but I do think the idea has some merit. --Michael Fawcett