On Friday, August 17, 2018 at 11:56:21 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>
> On Thursday, August 16, 2018 at 11:11:54 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> We have an open issue for removing Thread and Socket classes. Also see 
>> https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/issues/208.
>>
>> I think Denis Bider summed it up nicely in the report. Effectively he 
>> says we should focus on core capabilities and avoid some of the less 
>> frequently used extras like Sockets, Thread Local Storage and Pipes. I 
>> personally like the position because it reduces code clutter and avoids 
>> some points of failure.
>>
>> I checked in the removal on my testing branch at 
>> https://github.com/noloader/cryptopp . If all goes well I would like to 
>> merge it soon.
>>
>> I plan on moving Remove Thread and Socket classes to the Patch Page on 
>> the wiki. If anyone needs them they will be located there.
>>
>> Are there any objections to removing Remove Thread and Socket classes?
>>
>
> Merged at https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/pull/703 .
>

We added a wiki page as a sign post at 
https://www.cryptopp.com/wiki/ThreadLocalStorage . ThreadLocalStorage  
seemed most important as it was wired into the FIPS gear. Everything else 
was mostly stand-alone.

The wiki page provides a list of affected files and classes, and provides a 
brief discussion of the reasons why.

Jeff

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