on Mon Dec 03 2007, Joel de Guzman <joel-AT-boost-consulting.com> wrote:
Anthony Williams wrote:
Joel de Guzman <joel@boost-consulting.com> writes:
* Non-core libraries may place a single consolidated convenience header in boost/, forwarding to files of the form boost/<libraryname>/<header>.hpp. Regardless, their documented public components are not in boost/ or namespace boost::
What about boost.thread? Though the "general use" header is boost/thread.hpp, and the other headers are in boost/thread/xyz.hpp, the public interface is and always has been in namespace boost::, and changing this now would be a breaking change.
Seems that if thread is a non-core library then it indeed breaks the "standard practice".
I think our practices of namespace subdivision were only getting established when Boost.Thread was introduced. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com