On 5/11/2013 00:35, Quoth Peter Dimov:
No, I wasn't referring to C++14, as type traits are in C++11 (and were in TR1 before that.) My point was that Boost components that have been accepted into the standard are already obsolete, so investing any significant effort for them might not pay off.
Interesting that you say that. A while back there was a discussion in my team whether (now that the current release of applications are being built in a C++11 compiler) the code should continue to use boost::shared_ptr as before, or mix in std::shared_ptr in newer code, or do a global search-n-replace. (And similarly for some of the threading stuff.) Mixing was quickly ruled out as too confusing and painful (due to incompatibilities). And we eventually decided not to search-n-replace because (a) the two implementations are not entirely identical, so this might introduce bugs; (b) continuing to use the Boost version makes it easier to backport changes to older releases that still use C++98 compilers; (c) presumably the Boost version would be bugfixed or feature-enhanced in advance of the std version, or internally fall back to the std version where compatible. Do you think that some of those assumptions are flawed?