gmane.comp.lib.boost.announce

Egg review result

dan marsden — 2008-05-17T22:59:34

This is a summary of the review of the Egg library by Shunsuke Sogame. The main issue with this review was the low number of reviews submitted, despite a reasonable amount of discussion on the list. In total only 1 review was received, from Giovanni Piero Deretta. This review was a yes vote, contingent on a mini review of improved documentation. Given this extremely low review count, unfortunately Egg cannot be accepted into Boost at this time. The remainder of this summary will cover some of the themes relating to lack of reviews, and also other highlights of the review. I'll start with some positive notes. Several comments on the list suggested that functionality in Egg was wanted by users, and that they would like to see Egg in Boost in some form in the future. Several writers also pointed out the high quality of the implementation of Egg, and technical issues were not really a focus of the discussions. During discussions on the developer several reviewers comments on the quality / style of the documen

Review Wizard Status Report for May 2008

Ronald Garcia — 2008-05-16T21:45:49

========================================== Review Wizard Status Report for May 2008 ========================================== News ==== December 7, 2007 - Forward Library Accepted - Awaiting SVN December 16 - Unordered Containers Library Accepted - In SVN December 21 - Factory Library Accepted - Awaiting SVN January 13, 2008 - Switch Library Accepted Provisionally - Awaiting submission for mini review January 18 - Singleton Library Rejected - Awaiting resubmission, John Torjo has already volunteered to manage the next review January 30 - Flyweight Library Accepted - Awaiting SVN February 13 - Logging Library Rejected - Awaiting resubmission for new review, John Torjo has already resubmitted and Gennadiy Rozental has again volunteered to manage the review February 27 - Floating Point Utilities Library Accepted - Awaiting SVN March 14 - Proto Library Accepted - Exists as a component in Xpressive, but not yet as a separate library April 20 - Egg review completed - Results pending May 7 - Sc

[review] BOOST_SCOPE_EXIT review results

John Phillips — 2008-05-07T19:22:58

Here are the review results for the Scope Exit library, submitted by Alexander Nasonov. I would be remiss if I didn't begin these results with an apology and a thank you. The review wizards are sincerely sorry that the result of this review took so long to be presented, and very grateful that Alexander has been so patient and according to a post on the forum has even been working to improve the library in the interim when time allowed. The following people contributed to the review. Kim Barrett, Steven Wantanabe, Oleg Abrosimov, Andrey Semashev, Peder Holt, Johan Nilsson, Maxim Yanchenko, Pavel Vozenilek, Aaron LaFramboise, Ben Kuppers, Goran Mitrovic, Tom Brinkman, Martin Wille, Joseph Gauterin, Matt Gruenke, Dave Abrahams, Christian Holmquist, Mathais Gaunard, Michael Marcin, Daniel Wallin, Zach Laine, Sid Sacek, Wang Yun, and Ilya Sokolov After carefully considering the review comments, I'm pleased to announce that the Scope Exit library is accepted into Boost. As is almost always the case

Egg Review ends today

dan marsden — 2008-04-20T21:22:48

The review of the Egg library by Shunsuke Sogame ends today. If anybody is still considering doing a review, please do still submit it, even if it is a few days late. It will take a short while for me to summarise the discussion during the review period. The review result will be posted shortly. Thanks Dan Marsden Review Manager __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-announce

Egg review period extended until April 20th

dan marsden — 2008-04-13T20:26:02

Hi All The Egg review has run for 2 weeks now with zero reviews, which is obviously disappointing. There has been some good and pretty thorough discussion, and a couple of promises of reviews. As such, I'm extending the review period by 1 week until 20th April 2008. Please do post a review if you have any interest in this library. In case anybody is unsure, in the case of zero votes being posted, the default result will be a rejection. Please lets make sure we don't have to fall through to this default case. Introduction: It is not so easy to define Function Objects especially if you want to support Boost.ResultOf and Boost.Lambda. Therefore, as Boost provides iterator_facade and iterator adaptors, Egg provides function_facade and function adaptors. Egg provides the following features: * Workaround for the Forwarding Problem http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2002/n1385.htm * Helpers to build Function Objects: * egg::function and egg::function_fac

[Proto] Review result

Hartmut Kaiser — 2008-04-07T22:04:59

Hi all, initially I was hoping to find some time over the last weekend to go through the reviews in great detail to put together a proper review report. Well, as things happen, I was not able to find the time :-( To avoid further delays, here is the short version of the review result: Proto got 16 reviews (That's well above average! Thanks to all for participating), out of which 15 have been positive. The one 'No' essentially stated that the library, even if doubtless very useful, shouldn't be accepted yet, mainly because there has to be done more work in the area of formalizing the problem domain. In my opinion this is an overwhelming result and I'm whole heartily agreeing with the majority of the voters. Proto is accepted as a Boost library. The discussions have been very detailed and there have been raised a lot of (mostly minor) issues, but Eric is aware of the problems and is working on solving them. I'll try to put together a summary as soon as possible. Regards Hartmut Review Manager ________

Egg 2nd request for reviews

dan marsden — 2008-04-06T11:59:26

Hi All The review of the Egg library by Shunsuke Sogame has been running for 1 week now. There has been some discussion of the library on a couple of related threads, but no reviews submitted so far. Please try and find time to submit a review of this library if possible. If you wish to review, but don't have time before the review ends on April 13th, please post to that effect, we may be able to extend / move the review period to help reviewers. Introduction: It is not so easy to define Function Objects especially if you want to support Boost.ResultOf and Boost.Lambda. Therefore, as Boost provides iterator_facade and iterator adaptors, Egg provides function_facade and function adaptors. Egg provides the following features: * Workaround for the Forwarding Problem http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2002/n1385.htm * Helpers to build Function Objects: * egg::function and egg::function_facade provides the way to build Function Objects which

Egg Review starts today March 31st

dan marsden — 2008-03-31T06:35:28

The review of the Egg library by Shunsuke Sogame starts today.The library is concerned with the implementation and adaptation of function objects. As function objects are everywhere in Boost and C++, I hope to see plenty of discussion and votes during the review. Introduction: It is not so easy to define Function Objects especially if you want to support Boost.ResultOf and Boost.Lambda. Therefore, as Boost provides iterator_facade and iterator adaptors, Egg provides function_facade and function adaptors. Egg provides the following features: * Workaround for the Forwarding Problem http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2002/n1385.htm * Helpers to build Function Objects: * egg::function and egg::function_facade provides the way to build Function Objects which supports Boost.ResultOf and Lambda. * Function Objects Adaptors(in other words, higher-order functions): * egg::curryN supports the currying. * egg::pipable emulates

[Review][Proto] Review finished

Hartmut Kaiser — 2008-03-30T19:06:47

Hi all, the review of Eric Nieblers Proto Library has finished. Even if I still need to prepare the review summary over the next couple of days I'm convinced we had a very productive and very active review period - we received 16 votes, which is way more than the average. Thanks to all who prepared a review or who simply took part in the vibrant discussions. Regards Hartmut Review Manager _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-announce

Boost 1.35.0 released

Beman Dawes — 2008-03-29T20:22:31

Boost is pleased to announce the availability of release 1.35.0. This is a major release that includes 12 new libraries, and coincides with an upgrade and reorganization of the www.boost.org web site. The new libraries are: * Asio: Portable networking, including sockets, timers, hostname resolution and socket iostreams, from Chris Kohlhoff. * Bimap: Boost.Bimap is a bidirectional maps library for C++. With Boost.Bimap you can create associative containers in which both types can be used as key, from Matias Capeletto. * Circular Buffer: STL compliant container also known as ring or cyclic buffer, from Jan Gaspar. * Function Types: Boost.FunctionTypes provides functionality to classify, decompose and synthesize function, function pointer, function reference and pointer to member types. From Tobias Schwinger. * Fusion: Library for working with tuples, including various containers, algorithms, etc. From Joel de Guzman, Dan Marsden and Tobias Schwinger. * GIL: Generic Image Library, from Lubomir B

Re: [boost] Logging library review results

John Torjo — 2008-03-18T20:52:45

Hi All, Thanks to all who contributed. Now I'll know what needs to be improved - again ;) I'd like to formally ask for another review mid-end July. So, looking for a review manager - again ;) Yup, will redo, and redo the docs as well. Again, I'd like to resubmit, mid-end July. Got it. Yes - my problem is that each person seems to have a different opinion of what "simple case". However, what I'll do is this: - have a few simple cases, and write the code for them - minimize the number of lines I write in order to meet a certain case - question: what do you think it's a reasonable number of lines, for a simple case? I'd go for 5-10 lines of code. About those simple cases : the problem is that I have my own simple cases - which might not be what you want. So, if you have your great simple case, shout! On a side-note - I'll make a couple of web pages where I'll split the work to be done. Then, you all are most welcome to comment on them. I see - ok, basically that's easier for me. So I'm down with that ;

Logging library review results

Gennadiy Rozental — 2008-03-17T10:01:58

_______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-announce

[Proto] review period extended to end March 28th

Hartmut Kaiser — 2008-03-14T00:20:58

Hi all, There have been several requests to extend the Proto review period. For this reason the review now will end on March 28th. This should give you sufficient time to have a closer look at the library and to prepare a review. The original announcement follows: The review of Eric Nieblers Proto library starts today, March 1st 2008, and will end on March 14th. I really hope to see your vote and your participation in the discussions on the Boost mailing lists! --------------------------------------------------- About the library: Proto is a framework for building Domain Specific Embedded Languages in C++. It provides tools for constructing, type-checking, transforming and executing expression templates. More specifically, Proto provides: * An expression tree data structure. * Operator overloads for building the tree from an expression. * Utilities for defining the grammar to which an expression must conform. * An extensible mechanism for immediately executing an expression template. * An exten

[boost] Floating Point Utilities Review Result

John Maddock — 2008-03-08T16:06:04

Floating Point Utilities Review Result. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There were 6 positive reviews and no negative ones, so Johan Rade's Floating Point Utility library has been accepted into Boost. The main issues and topics that came up for discussion were: 1) A couple of minor bugs were uncovered relating to signed NaN testing when using the SSE2 registers, and deserialising NaN's: both were fixed during the review period. 2) We had a discussion about the usefulness or otherwise of signed NaN's and the changesign function: Johan agreed to drop support for these as the signbit of NaN's is not considered part of the NaN payload and need not be preserved by the compiler, this could usefully be summarised in a rationale: especially now that negative NaN's are not formatted with a "-" sign? 3) JM made a few quite fruitless suggestions about optimising away calls to memcpy: this should be documented in a rationale to prevent JM from making the same mistake again :-) 4) John Phil

[Review] Proto review starts today, March 1st

Hartmut Kaiser — 2008-03-01T15:31:27

Hi all, The review of Eric Nieblers Proto library starts today, March 1st 2008, and will end on March 14th. I really hope to see your vote and your participation in the discussions on the Boost mailing lists! --------------------------------------------------- About the library: Proto is a framework for building Domain Specific Embedded Languages in C++. It provides tools for constructing, type-checking, transforming and executing expression templates. More specifically, Proto provides: * An expression tree data structure. * Operator overloads for building the tree from an expression. * Utilities for defining the grammar to which an expression must conform. * An extensible mechanism for immediately executing an expression template. * An extensible set of tree transformations to apply to expression trees. * A mechanism for giving expressions additional behaviors and members. Documentation is here: http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/libs/proto Download proto.zip from here: http://www.boost-consu

[Boost-users] Ann: Floating Point Utilities Reviewstarts today

John Maddock — 2008-02-18T17:27:25

The review of Johan Rade's floating point utilities starts today. Code and docs can be downloaded from : http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php? action=downloadfile&filename=floating_point_utilities_v3.zip&directory=M ath%20-%20Numerics& The library consists of three parts: 1) Floating point classification routines: these are optimised implementations of the C99 and C++ TR1 functions fpclassify, isinf, isnan, isnormal and isfinite. From Boost-1.35 onwards these are already a part of Boost.Math (see http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk/libs/math/doc/sf_and_dist/html/ math_toolkit/special/fpclass.html) so if accepted the two implementations will get merged. The review here should focus on the implementation used, and testing on whatever platforms you have available - in particular are there any circumstances (compiler optimisation settings etc) where this implementation breaks? 2) Sign manipulation functions: implementations of the C99 and C++ TR1 functions copysign and signbit, plus th

Logging library review is finished. Really.

Gennadiy Rozental — 2008-02-18T18:44:00

_______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-announce

[flyweight] Review summary

Ion Gaztañaga — 2008-02-17T23:36:21

Hi to all, I've just written a summary of the flyweight review that tries to point out the main requests, questions and comments from reviewers and Joaquin's replies to those. If someone thinks I've missed some important point, please let me know. Joaquín is already correcting the pointed issues and thinking about alternatives on the keyed_flyweight issue. I hope we can definitely solve them satisfactorily in a short period of time. Here we go: -------------------------- Beginning of summary -------------------------- ------------------------- *Tim Blechmann’s review:* ------------------------- Design: Good. Suggests using read-write locks to improve concurrency since most operations will be searches. Implementation: fine Documentation: good Usefulness: quite useful to reduce memory footprint. Try to use the library: no Effort: Read documentation and compare it with his own implementation Knowledgeable about the problem domain: yes Accept the library: yes This reviews starts a thr

[flyweight][review] Flyweight accepted

Ion Gaztañaga — 2008-02-05T19:44:16

Hi to all, The Flyweight library submitted by Joaquín M. López Muñoz has been *accepted* into Boost. Thanks to all reviewers and all who contributed to the library before the review. We've received 10 reviews (Alberto Ganesh Barbati, David Sankel, John Reid, John Torjo, Kevin Scopp, Marcus Lindblom, Markus Werle, Matias Capeletto, Neil Hunt, Tim Blechmann), and all except Alberto's one were positive. Please, if I've missed a review, let me know. Joaquín agreed to address Alberto's comments (either with keyed_flyweight or by another method) and I like to encourage Joaquín and Alberto and the rest of the Boost community to improve the flyweight library to optimize and adapt it for situations like Alberto has described. I'm pretty sure that we'll reach an agreement. I'll have some time during the weekend to read all the reviews and write an small summary of requested changes, ideas, complaints, etc... to summarize the review process. Congratulations to Joaquín and thanks to all those who

[flyweight] Review period extended to February 3

Ion Gaztañaga — 2008-01-29T20:58:36

Hi to all, We've received 4 positive reviews and several comments, but we still want more ;-) Some people expressed interested in the pre-review period and I want to give some time (weekend is the right time to review a Boost library...) to those who are interested in the library and have not found time to review it. The last review day is February 3. Common, the library is very lightweight ;-) to review, it's pretty well documented, it's certainly small and very general purpose. Here is the information. Last call to passengers! *Description:* Flyweights are small-sized handle classes granting constant access to shared common data, thus allowing for the management of large amounts of entities within reasonable memory limits. Boost.Flyweight makes it easy to use this common programming idiom by providing the class template flyweight, which acts as a drop-in replacement for const T. *Online docs:* http://tinyurl.com/2sstyr http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/flyweight/libs/flyweight/index.htm

[review] Review of Flyweight library started January 21 and still running!

Ion Gaztañaga — 2008-01-26T12:38:45

Hi all, The formal review of Flyweight library started January 21 and will end January 30, we have a few nice reviews, but I'm sure that those who haven't reviewed it are also interested in the library ;-). The library solves quite a common programming pattern, is small and very well documented. So don't be afraid to try it! Information for reviewers: *Description:* Flyweights are small-sized handle classes granting constant access to shared common data, thus allowing for the management of large amounts of entities within reasonable memory limits. Boost.Flyweight makes it easy to use this common programming idiom by providing the class template flyweight, which acts as a drop-in replacement for const T. *Online docs:* http://tinyurl.com/2sstyr http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/flyweight/libs/flyweight/index.html *Download:* http://tinyurl.com/hrdm6 http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?&direction=0&order=&directory=Patterns *Notes:* 1) We've seen some suggestions in the mailing