[Botan-devel] Poll: Using TR1 functionality?

[Jack Lloyd]

Does anyone have comments for or against the use of TR1 functionality?
I've been informed that for a German government project several
extensions/modifications have been made to Botan (including addition
of ECDSA and several other useful things), which hopefully are going
to be contributed back into the main tree. One of these is using
tr1::shared_ptr in places where it is useful.

I can also think of many cases where function/bind, tuple, hash
tables, and regex would lead to better (faster, safer, and/or more
readable) code. The trouble, as always, is implementation
support. GCCv4 and MSVCv9 seem pretty solid, and probably most other
compilers can use Boost.TR1, but I don't really know what compilers
people are using, how against extra dependencies they are, etc.

Anything I did along these lines would probably go into a branch
initially and might never actually make it to mainline, but I was
curious what the general reaction to this was.

-Jack