At 01:22 AM 8/24/2003, Daryle Walker wrote:

 > 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.

Yes, IIRC the same generator is available. But I don't think there is any 
need for a transition; we've been signalling for years that min_rand was 
due for removal.

 > 
 > > - 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?

At least mark the library deprecated for a release or two, with a pointer 
to the replacement functionality.

--Beman

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