Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 16:50:09 +0100 From: vicente.botet@wanadoo.fr To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] [math][integer] Moving integer utilities out of the math lib.
Le 10/01/15 13:21, John Maddock a écrit :This does look to me like a good idea, but to remain coherent, all of http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_57_0/libs/math/doc/html/gcd_lcm.html should move, which means:
common_factor.hpp common_factor_rt.hpp common_factor_ct.hpp
Plus docs and tests.
Further I'd like to see the headers under boost/integer/*.hpp and the namespace changed to boost::integer. For backwards compatibility the boost/math/*.hpp headers should be present also but merely include the new ones and import the symbols into boost::math via using declarations.
One SNAFU I see is that boost.integer is a largely unmaintained ragbag of utilities (though often very useful).
I believed that Daryle Walker was maintaining it, but now that I see that the last closed fix was 5 years ago I agree that it is unmaintained. Anyway the library has 4 authors: Beman Dawes, Daryle Walker, Gennaro Prota andJohn Maddock. No one of the other authors want to maintain this simple ;-) library? Beman? John? I don't mind if someone else wants to take over. I got bogged down trying to modernize it (which was so long ago that it would need re-modernizing if I ever uploaded it) and not getting how to do uploads. (The bug fixes I did with Rational were the only ones I've successfully uploaded by myself to an official release.) I do occasionally check my e-mail if whoever takes over has questions.
It would be nice if someone would take responsibility for this library: any takers? It might be the right time too to move the rest of Boost.Integer into boost::integer rather than dumping everything in namespace boost?
Does that look like a plan? Anyone care to take it on?
I think so. The logical structure must be preserved. Some years ago, I mentored a Bits Ints GSoC project that falls in this category that added a lot of ct and rt facilities for ints. If no one of the current authors want to take care of the maintenance of this library I could do it, but I would like Beman and John, you help on this task also.