Boost Release 1.27.0 available

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-07 13:37:53

Boost release 1.27.0 is available at the usual locations.  Highlights:

*  Python Library: Scott Snyder contributed inplace operator support.

*  Integer Library: Daryle Walker contributed enhancements to the type 
selection templates, and added new compile-time bit mask, binary logarithm, 
and extrema templates.

*  Function Library: user may request that boost::function objects store a 
reference to a function object target instead of a copy, using ref. 
Stateless objects are optimized so that they require no dynamic storage.

*  Quaternions: added support for GCC 2.95.x.

*  Octonions: added support for GCC 2.95.x.

*  Smart Pointers Library: Peter Dimov contributed a new implementation 
that fixes some bugs and adds some features including thread safety when 
manipulating the use count, custom delete functions, a new weak_ptr, and 
shared_static_cast and shared_dynamic_cast.

*  Preprocessor Library: changed macro prefix from BOOST_PREPROCESSOR to 
BOOST_PP, added support for list data structure manipulation, added 
examples, made library ANSI C friendly, added generalized repetition and 
iteration primitives, improved reference manual.

*  Threads Library: Mac Carbon implementation contributed by Mac Murrett.

*  Minor fixes to many libraries.

--Beman