Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.Uuid and header-only support
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-11-04 00:15:52
James E. King, III wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have an open defect related to a random seed generator that's currently
> in boost::uuids::detail called seed_rng. The class does a fair bit more
> than it really needs to, and does not support Universal Windows Platform
> (UWP) store targets. It is otherwise quite similar to
> boost::random::random_device however it is a header-only implementation
> (in fact seed_rng has a comment about putting it into Boost.Random). I
> was planning on removing it and leaving randomness to Boost.Random because
> that's where the code really belongs, however this would introduce a new
> library dependency on Boost.Random for any code using
> boost::uuids::random_generator. So I'm curious on how important folks
> believe it is to maintain the header-only status of Boost.Uuid.
You had plans of contributing a header-only random_device to Boost.Random, I
think?