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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> boost
boost
[boost] Re: Deprecation/removal of libraries
by Daryle Walker other posts by this author
Aug 24 2003 5:22AM messages near this date
Re: [boost] Re: converting Boost to other programming languages | Re: [boost] Re: Deprecation/removal of libraries
On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 10:12 AM, Douglas Gregor wrote:

>  I'd like to deprecate or remove two libraries:
> 
>  - min_rand has been the only entry in our list of "Obsolete Libraries" 
>  for quite some time. Random is quite mature, so let's just eliminate 
>  min_rand now.

Doesn't one of the classes in Boost.Random have the same distribution 
as min_rand?  If so, we can do a transition by changing min_rand to a 
typedef of the updated class.

>  - compose has been surpassed by bind to the point where we dissuade 
>  users from using compose if they ask, and tell them to use bind 
>  instead. Let's deprecate this in 1.31.0 and remove it in 1.32.0.

Maybe we can do a similar typedef transition here too?

Daryle

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