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From: tom brinkman (reportbase_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-28 12:00:38
Review Wizard Status Report
1) Summary
2) Review Managers Needed
3) Review Schedule
4) Libraries under development
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1) Summary
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Daryle Walker's library "More IO" is currently under review,
starting August 21, 2004. Download the library at:
http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/more_io_4.zip.
Please post a review of this library if you have not already done so.
For information about submitting a Formal Review, see
http://www.boost.org/more/formal_review_process.htm.
The next library to be reviewed is Jonathan Turkanis "IOStreams" library.
The "Iostreams" library allows the easy creation of standard C++ streams and
stream buffer classes for new data sources and sinks. Download the library
at: http://home.comcast.net/~jturkanis/iostreams.
Be prepared to review this library in the next few days.
If there are no objections, starting with the "More IO" library, I will
attach an ID number to each reviewed library. Please reference this ID
number in any postings to the group. This will help in organizing the
reviews and assist in searching for related postings.
I've also added a permanent section to this status report, called
"Libraries Under Development". The purpose of this section is to
prevent duplication of effort and support collaberation between library
authors. Please contact me to add libraries to this section.
Note:
If you have any suggestions about how I could improve
the Review Wizard's status report,
please email me at reportbase_at_yahoo.com.
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2) Review Managers Needed
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If you would like to volunteer to be a review manager, please contact me at
reportbase_at_yahoo.com.
The following libraries still require review manager volunteers:
10006 - Named Parms
10007 - Policy Pointer
10008 - Wave
10009 - Finite State Machine (FSM)
10010 - Fixed Strings
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3) Review Schedule
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August 21, 2004        10001 - More IO (Currently Under Review)
August 28, 2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 10002 - Iostreams
September 7, 2004 10003 - Output Formatters
September 15, 2004     10004 - Mini-Review wiki algorithims
September 17, 2004Â Â Â Â Â 10005 - Smart Containers
September 27, 2004     10006 - Named Params
October 6, 2004   10007 - Policy Pointer
October 16, 2004Â Â 10008 - Wave
October 26, 2004  10009 - Finite State Machine (FSM)
November 4, 2004 10010 - Fixed Strings
10001 - August 21, 2004         More IO (Currently Under Review)
Author - Daryle Walker - darylew_at_[hidden]
Review Manager - Tom Brinkman - reportbase_at_[hidden]
Download:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/more_io_4.zip [or]
http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/more_io_4.zip
Description:
Provides a multitude of I/O-oriented extensions.  Some are extra
manipulators; variants of "std::endl", a resetting manipulator, and a
configurable manipulator.  The library includes a set of base class
templates for wrapping a new stream-buffer type around a stream class.
Changes from the last interim version (called "more_io_3b.zip"):
* split the manipulator header into several headers
* refined the license statements in some already-affected files
Changes from the first formal review (called "more_io.zip"):
* refined the interface and implementation of array-streams and
stream-buffer wrappers (including a wrapping example)
* added the null-stream, value-stream, and pointer-stream headers
* added generalizations to the new-line and skip-line manipulators
* added the non-oriented 'reset' and 'form' manipulators
* split the manipulator header into several headers
* changed the license statements
10002 - August 28, 2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Iostreams
Author - Jonathan Turkanis - turkanis_at_[hidden]
Review Manager - Jeff Garland - jeff_at_[hidden]
Web-Page:
http://home.comcast.net/~jturkanis/iostreams
Download:
http://home.comcast.net/~jturkanis/iostreams
Description:
The Iostreams Library serves two main purposes:
To allow the easy creation of standard C++ stream and stream
buffer classes for new data sources and sinks.
To provide a convenient interface for defining i/o filters and
attaching them to standard streams and stream buffers.
The library focuses on freeing users from writing boiler plate code
and allowing them instead to create highly reusable components.
In addition to providing an abstract framework the library provides
a number of concrete filters, sources and sinks which serve as example
applications of the library but are also useful in their own right.
These include components for accessing memory-mapped files (based on
work of Craig Henderson), for file access via operating system file
descriptors, for code conversion, for text filtering with regular
expressions, for line-ending conversion and for compression and
decompression in the zlib, gzip and bzip2 formats.
10003 - September 7, 2004    Output Formatters
Author - Reece Dunn - msclrhd_at_[hidden]
Review Manager - John Torjo - john_at_[hidden]
Download:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/
boost-sandbox/boost-sandbox/boost/outfmt/ [or]
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/
boost-sandbox/boost-sandbox/libs/outfmt/
Description:
The I/O formatters library provides an easy and customizable way to
input/output arrays, STL arrays, STL collections, sub-arrays from/to
STL streams. It allows you to configure how each element in such an
array will be written to the stream or read from the stream,
while providing reasonable defaults.
10004 - September 15, 2004      Mini-Review wiki algorithims
Author - Various
Review Manager - Tom Brinkman - reportbase_at_[hidden]
Download: to be determined
Description: not available
10005 - September 17, 2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Smart Containers
Author - Thorsten Ottosen - nesotto_at_[hidden]
Review Manager - Pavol Droba - droba_at_[hidden]
Download:
the boost sandbox: ptr_container
Description:
The Smart Container Library consists of several container classes
that are capable of storing heap-allocated objects in an
exception-safe manner. The interface of the container classes
effectively hides the underlying pointers so one can work
on objects directly; this indirection is done to make
the classes safer and easier to use. The library can also
be customized to allow, for example, that a container does not rake
ownership of the stored objects.
10006 - September 27, 2004      Named Params
Co-Authors - David Abrahams - dave_at_[hidden]) &
Daniel Wallin (dalwan01_at_[hidden])
Review Manager - to be determined
Download:
Boost sandbox
boost/named_params.hpp [and]
libs/utility/doc/named_params.html
Description:
This library is an attempt to address the problems of positional
parameters by associating each parameter with a keyword
identifier. Using this library, users can identify parameters by name
instead of just argument position, and pass them in any order:
window* w = new_window("alert2", movable = movability, opacity = 50);
10007 - October 6, 2004     Policy Pointer
Author - David Held - dheld_at_[hidden]
Review Manager - to be determined
Download:
available via boost CVS
Description:
Smart pointers are used to automate memory management by handling the
deletion of dynamically allcoated objects (and other resources).
They assist in ensuring program correctness, exception safety, and
memory integrity. Policy Pointer is a policy-based smart
pointer framework designed to accomodate the large number of
smart pointer designs. Through the use of policy classes,
virtually any smart pointer type can be constructed within this
framework. This library is a Boostification of the original
Loki::SmartPtr type with significant modifications.
10008 - October 16, 2004Â Â Â Wave
Author - Hartmut Kaiser - hartmutkaiser_at_[hidden]
Review Manager - to be determined
Download
Boost-sandbox
Description:
The Wave C++ preprocessor library is a Standards
conformant implementation of the mandated C99/C++
preprocessor functionality
packed behind a simple to use interface,
which integrates well with the well
known idioms of the Standard Template Library (STL). It uses the
Spirit[4] parser construction library to implement a C++ lexer
with SO/ANSI Standards conformant preprocessing
capabilities. It exposes an iterator
interface, which returns the current preprocessed
token from the input stream. This preprocessed token is
generated on the fly while iterating over the preprocessor
iterator sequence (in the terminology of the STL these
iterators are forward iterators).
10009 - October 26, 2004   Finite State Machine (FSM)
Author - Andreas Huber - ah2003_at_[hidden]
Review Manager - to be determined
Download:
http://boost-sandbox.sf.net/fsm.zip
Documentation:
http://boost-sandbox.sf.net/libs/fsm
Description:
The boost::fsm library is a framework that allows you to quickly
transform a UML state chart into executable C++ code, without needing
to use a code generator. Thanks to support for almost all UML
features the transformation is straight-forward and the resulting C++
code is a nearly redundancy-free textual description of the state
chart.
10010 - November 4, 2004 Fixed Strings
Author - Reece Dunn - msclrhd_at_[hidden]
Review Manager - to be determined
Download:
boosts-sandbox/boost/fixed_string [or]
boost-sandbox/libs/fixed_string
Description:
The fixed string library provides buffer overrun protection for static
sized strings (char s[ n ]). It provides a C-style string
interface for compatibility with C code (for
example, porting a C program to C++).
There is also a std::string-style interface using a class based on
flex_string by Andre Alexandrescu with a few limitations due to the
non-resizable nature of the class.
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4) Libraries under development
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10011 boost::xpressive - Under Development
Author:
Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Download:
Boost sandbox at sourceforge.net
Description:
Advanced regular expression template library that allows regexes to
be written as expression templates (statically bound) or as
strings (dynamically bound) and allows regexes to
nest and call each other recursively (like perl6) and
bind to semantic actions (like Spirit).
Development status:
Under active development. Basic functionality in place.
10012 boost::geometry2d - Under Development
Author(s):
Aleksey Gurtovoy
Description:
simple cartesian geometry classes (point<>, rectangle<>, etc.)
Download:
yahoogroups files section, geometry2d/
Development status:
basic functionality working
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