[boost] Update: Outstanding patches and fixes

2003-03-13 Thread Beman Dawes
Here is the current list: * lexical_cast problems. Hold changes for next release? * Regex make boost work better patch from Lars Gullik Bjønnes John Maddock says he will apply soon. * [status/Jamfile] Jamfile patches for Borland Dave says factor commonality out into template. Too late

Re: [boost] Update: Outstanding patches and fixes

2003-03-13 Thread David Abrahams
Beman Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It looks to me like we should hold the lexical_cast changes until the next release. There are really two issues IIUC - some wide-character support problems and VC++ 6.0 support. While the wide-character problems might be possible to resolve quickly, VC++

Re: [boost] Update: Outstanding patches and fixes

2003-03-13 Thread Daniel Frey
Beman Dawes wrote: * Daniel Frey: provided a fix for some warnings in the type-traits (is_class/is_enum IIRC), John Maddock is aware of it AFAIK. Just to remove any doubts: This should not be a show-stopper. The warnings are in there for quite some time and type-traits are to complicated

Re: [boost] Update: Outstanding patches and fixes

2003-03-13 Thread Beman Dawes
At 10:58 AM 3/13/2003, Daniel Frey wrote: Beman Dawes wrote: * Daniel Frey: provided a fix for some warnings in the type-traits (is_class/is_enum IIRC), John Maddock is aware of it AFAIK. Just to remove any doubts: This should not be a show-stopper. The warnings are in there for quite some

Re: [boost] Update: Outstanding patches and fixes

2003-03-13 Thread Thomas Witt
Thomas Witt wrote: Hi, I am biased anyway, but I would vote for reverting the lexical_cast changes in RC_1_30_0. I was just looking at the new lexical_cast implementation and unless I messed up with updating my tree to RC_1_30_0 the documentation needs to be fixed as well. AFAICS the

Re: [boost] Update: Outstanding patches and fixes

2003-03-13 Thread David Abrahams
Thomas Witt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I got the impression that the majority on the list want's the change in string semantics and I am willing to accept this. But I would really like to see the documentation clearly state that strings are handled differently. I agree, and would go further.

Re: [boost] Update: Outstanding patches and fixes

2003-03-13 Thread Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve
--- Beman Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OTOH, it's very tiresome waiting for these last minute fixes, which don't seem particularly critical anyhow. Assuming lexical_cast is reverted, maybe we should just go ahead with the release now. Whatever you do, please give me (another...) realistic

Re: [boost] Update: Outstanding patches and fixes

2003-03-13 Thread Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve
--- David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My only concern about this is that IIUC Bjorn has been making lots of promises that the new lexical_cast was going to be in 1.30.0. I don't want to break promises without due consideration. To me branching for release also is a promise: relative

Re: [boost] Update: Outstanding patches and fixes

2003-03-13 Thread David Abrahams
Beman Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 12:45 PM 3/13/2003, David Abrahams wrote: Thomas Witt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I got the impression that the majority on the list want's the change in string semantics and I am willing to accept this. But I would really like to see the

Re: [boost] Update: Outstanding patches and fixes

2003-03-13 Thread Thomas Witt
David Abrahams wrote: Beman Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kevlin did update the docs; the complaint is that the updates are unclear. I thought the complaint was that the current state is plain inaccurate in major ways. The complaint is that the doc's are misleading, at times straddling the

Re: [boost] Update: Outstanding patches and fixes

2003-03-13 Thread David Abrahams
Thomas Witt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Abrahams wrote: Beman Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kevlin did update the docs; the complaint is that the updates are unclear. I thought the complaint was that the current state is plain inaccurate in major ways. The complaint is that the