Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #11202: boost.sort header conflicts with boost.range header

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viboes — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 14:58:33 GMT

owner set to Marshall Clow
component None → algorithm

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Marshall Clow — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:27:41 GMT

owner changed from Marshall Clow to Paul A. Bristow
component algorithm → sort

This is definitely not me. This belongs to Steven Ross, maintainer of the Boost.Sort library.

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stevenross — Mon, 18 May 2015 00:54:00 GMT

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component sort → range
owner changed from Paul A. Bristow to Neil Groves

This is due to the "using range::sort" at the bottom of boost/range/algorithm/sort.hpp (fixing this also requires renaming uses of boost::sort to boost::range::sort). It's causing namespace pollution by putting a function in the boost:: namespace, that's conflicting with the boost::sort library. It's also a violation of this guideline: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/Guidelines/MaintenanceGuidelines#Avoidtheinclusionofsymbolsattheboostorboost::detailnamespace

Neil Groves has agreed to look into it.

anonymous — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:47:50 GMT

I know, Boost is a project of volunteers but I just stumbled over the same issue. And since there is no +1 and the last activity has been months ago I figured I just put a comment here to bring that ticket to your attention again.