Re: [sigc] TypeTraits

[Martin Schulze <martin-ml hippogriff de>]

Am 31.07.2004 13:28:08 schrieb(en) martin-ml hippogriff de:
> > On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 17:02 +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> >> Hi Arnaud!
> >>
> >> Thanks for reporting this! You are right, the instance() method is
> >> completely ununsed. It was needed for some early alpha versions of
> >> libsigc++2 that used gcc's non-portable typeof() keyword. I never
> >> thought of removing it.
> >>
> >> The problem is: formally, the type_trait<> template is part of the
> >> public API so I hesitate to silently remove the instance() method.
> On
> >> the hand, it doesn't really make sense to conditionally generate  
> it
> -
> >> our only alternative.
> >>
> >> So, I'm asking the list: is there anybody against completely
> removing
> >> the (internally unused) type_trait<>::instance() method?
> >
> > I see no problem with removing it. It is a static method (so, non-
> > virtual, so it won't affect ABI), and it is completely
> unimplemented, so
> > there is no way that anybody could even link to it.
>
> Okay, patches are welcome :-)
> Otherwise, I'll try to get the time to do this tomorrow evening.

type_trait<>::instance() is now removed in cvs.

BTW, we still need a patch that adds and uses a pre-generated sigc+ 
+config.h in the MSVC project directory and adds the SIGC_API keyword!

Regards,

 Martin