Re: [boost] Boost Review Wizard's Report: December 1, 2005

From: Marcin Kalicinski (kalita_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-03 06:53:43

I intend to submit property_tree library for a review once I improve Intel & 
Borland compiler compatibility. Pavel Vozenilek has been offering a lot of 
help in form of feedback and suggestions, I hope he will agree to be the 
review manager.

The current revision of the library can be downloaded from the vault 
(property_tree_rev3.zip).

Best regards,
Marcin

>  Review Wizard Status Report
>  Tom Brinkman
>  Ronald Garcia
>
>
>  1) News
>  2) Review Managers Needed
>  3) Review Queue
>  4) Libraries under development
>
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>  1) News
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>
> Ronald Garcia has signed on as co-wizard to assist Tom Brinkman.  Feel
> free to contact either of us with questions or review requests.
>
> Output Formatters, Singleton, and Interfaces have been removed from the
> review
> queue.  Reece Dunn,
> Jason Hise, and Jonathan Turkanis, the respective library authors, do
> not
> currently have the time to make the changes necessary prior to a
> review.  We hope to see these libraries updated and resubmitted
> some time in the not too distant future.
>
> We need review managers.  Please take a look at the list of libraries
> in need of managers and check out their descriptions.  If you can
> serve as review manager for any of them, send one of us an email.
>
> Note:
>  If you have any suggestions about how we could improve
>  the Review Wizard's status report or if we have forgotten anything,
>  please email "reportbase at gmail dot com"
>           and "garcia at cs dot indiana dot edu".
>
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>  2) Review Managers Needed
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>
> There are a few libraries in the review queue in need
> of review managers. If you would like to volunteer to be a review
> manager, please contact Ron or Tom.
>
> The following libraries still require review manager volunteers:
> Fixed Strings
> Intrusive Containers
> Singleton (Re-review)
> Fusion
> Shmem
> Type Traits (modification)
>
>
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>  3) Review Queue
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>
> asio - December 10 2005 - December 24 2005
>
> Policy Pointer
> Fixed Strings
> Intrusive Containers
> Function Types (mini-re-review)
> Fusion
> Shmem
> Type_Traits
>
>
>  asio
>    Author - Christopher Kohlhoff
>    Review Manager - Jeff Garland
>
>    Download:
>     http://asio.sourceforge.net/
>
>    Description:
>
>     asio is a cross-platform C++ library for network programming that
>     provides developers with a consistent asynchronous I/O model using a
>     modern C++ approach.
>
>     To use asio's SSL support, OpenSSL is required. OpenSSL is not
>     necessary to use the rest of asio.
>
>     asio consists only of header files, and so there is no need to build
>     any libraries before using asio in your own applications.
>
>     asio supports the following platforms and compilers:
>       Win32 using Visual C++ 7.1 and Visual C++ 8.0.
>       Win32 using Borland C++Builder 6 patch 4.
>       Win32 using MinGW.
>       Linux (2.4 or 2.6 kernels) using g++ 3.3 or later.
>       Solaris using g++ 3.3 or later.
>       Mac OS X 10.4 using g++ 3.3 or later.
>
>  Type_Traits (modification)
>  Author - Alexander Nasonov
>  Review Manager - To be determined
>
>  Download :
> You can download it from
> http://cpp-experiment.sourceforge.net/promote-20050917.tar.gz
> or browse it online
> http://cpp-experiment.sourceforge.net/promote-20050917/
>
> Description:
> Proposal to add promote, integral_promotion and
> floating_point_promotion
>  class templates to type_traits library.
>
> Alexander tried it on different compilers with various success:
> GNU/Linux (gentoo-hardened): gcc 3.3 and 3.4, Intel 7, 8 and 9
> Windows: VC7 free compiler
> Sparc Solaris: Sun C++ 5.3 and 5.7
>
> See comments at the beginning of promote_enum_test.cpp for what is
> broken.
> http://cpp-experiment.sourceforge.net/promote-20050917/libs/
> type_traits/test/promote_enum_test.cpp
>
> Alexandar used to compile tests on VC6 and I'm pretty sure I can add
> workarounds if
> someone is still interested. Actually, it compiled the tests better
> then VC7.
> As for Borland 5.5, is_enum is broken and I don't see any reason to
> support this compiler.
>
> Alexandar requests a fast-track review.
>
>  Policy Pointer
>    Author - David Held & Jonathan Turkanis
>    Review Manager - Gennadiy Rozenthal
>
>    Download:
>     Boost Sandbox (http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/) under
> policy_ptr
>
>    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.
>
>
>   Fixed Strings
>    Author - Reece Dunn
>    Review Manager - to be determined
>
>    Download:
>     Boost Sandbox (http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/) under
> 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.
>
>
>  Intrusive Containers
>    Author - Olaf Krzikalla
>    Review Manager - to be determined
>
>   Download:
>    http://people.freenet.de/turtle++/intrusive.zip
>
>   Description:
>     While intrusive containers were and are widely used in C, they
> became
>     more and more forgotten in the C++-world due to the presence of the
>     standard containers, which don't support intrusive
>     techniques. Boost.Intrusive not only reintroduces this technique to
>     C++, but also encapsulates the implementation in STL-like
>     interfaces. Hence anyone familiar with standard containers can use
>     intrusive containers with ease.
>
>
>   Function Types (mini-re-review)
>     Author - Tobias Schwinger
>     Review Manager - John Maddock
>
>     Download:
>      http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/vault/
>
>     Description:
>      This library provides a metaprogramming facility
>       to classify, decompose and synthesize function-,
>       function pointer-, function reference- and
>       member function pointer types. For the purpose
>       of this documentation, these types are
>       collectively referred to as function
>       types (this differs from the standard
>       definition and redefines the term from
>       a programmer's perspective to refer to
>       the most common types that involve functions).
>
>      The classes introduced by this library
>       shall conform to the concepts of the
>       Boost Metaprogramming library (MPL).
>
>      The Function Types library enables the user to:
>       * test an arbitrary type for
> being a function type of specified kind,
>       * inspect properties of function types,
>       * view and modify sub types of an
> encapsulated function type with
> MPL Sequence operations, and
>       * synthesize function types.
>
>      This library supports variadic functions and
>       can be configured to support
>       non-default calling conventions.
>
>
>  Shmem
>    Author - Ion Gaztanaga
>    Review Manager - to be determined
>
>    Download:
>  Boost Sandbox Vault -> Memory
> (http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/vault/index.php?
> direction=0&order=&directory=Memory)
>
>
> http://ice.prohosting.com/newfunk/boost/libs/shmem/doc/html/index.html
>
>    Description:
>     Shmem offers tools to symplify shared memory usage in
>     applications. These include shared memory creation/destruction and
>     synchronization objects. It also implements dynamic allocation of
>     portions of a shared memory segment and an easy way to construct C++
>     objects in shared memory.
>
>     Apart from this, Shmem implements a wide range of STL-like
> containers
>     and allocators that can be safely placed in shared memory, helpful
> to
>     implement complex shared memory data-bases and other efficient
>     inter-process communications.
>
>
>  Fusion
>    Author - Joel de Guzman
>    Review Manager - to be determined
>
>    Download:
>     http://spirit.sourceforge.net/dl_more/fusion_v2/
>
>    Description:
>     Fusion is a library of heterogenous containers and views and
>     algorithms. A set of heterogenous containers (vector, list, set and
>     map) is provided out of the box along with view classes that present
>     various composable views over the data. The containers and views
>     follow a common sequence concept with an underlying iterator concept
>     that binds it all together, suitably making the algorithms fully
>     generic over all sequence types.
>
>     The architecture is somewhat modeled after MPL which in turn is
>     modeled after STL. It is code-named "fusion" because the library is
>     the "fusion" of compile time metaprogramming with runtime
> programming.
>
>
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>  4) Libraries under development
>  ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>
>   Please let us know of any libraries you are currently
>   developing that you intend to submit for review.
>
>
>   Output Formatters
>   Singleton
>   Interfaces
>
>
>  Output Formatters
>    Author - Reece Dunn
>
>    Download:
>     Boost Sandbox (http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/) under 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.
>
>
>  Singleton
>    Author - Jason Hise
>
>    Download:
>     http://tinyurl.com/6qvrd (old version from previous review)
>
>    Description:
>     Singleton is feature rich library:
>
>     - ensuring single instance of a class
>        and global access point to this instance
>
>     - with policies specifying:
>
>       - when the instance gets created
> (manually, immediatelly, when first used, ...)
>
>       - how is the instance created
> (by new, malloc, in static memory, ...)
>
>       - when the instance gets destroyed
> (never, by priority, after another singleton, ...)
>
>     Parametrized singleton called Multiton is provided
>
>       City::pointer p1("Chicago");
>        City::pointer p2("Brussels");
>
>     will create two different "singletons" of the same type.
>
>     Another feature is ability to register resources
>      (like shared pointer) who will get destroyed
>      in controlled order, when the application exits.
>
>     Not yet implemented features are:
>       - MT safety
>       - self-destroying singleton with timeout
>       - bjam compatible tests
>
>     The library is known to work with several newer compilers,
>      VC7.1 among them. Help with other compilers is welcomed.
>
>
>  Interfaces
>    Author - Jonathan Turkanis
>
>    Download:
>     http://www.kangaroologic.com/interfaces
>
>    Description:
>     Interfaces provides a macro-based Interface Definition Language
>     (IDL) which can be used to define C++ class types called
>     interfaces. An interface is a lightweight value type associated with
>     a set of named function signatures. An interface instance can be
>     bound at runtime to any object which implements the interface, i.e.,
>     to any object of a type with accessible non-static member functions
>     having the same name and signature as the set of functions
> associated
>     with the interface. The functions of the bound object can then be
>     invoked through the interface instance using the 'dot'
>     operator. Binding is completely non-intrusive: the object's type
> need
>     not declare any virtual functions or derive from any particluar base
>     class.
>
>    Current applications of Boost.Interfaces include:
>
>    * Non-intrusive dynamic polymorphism: interfaces can often be
>      used in place of abstract base classes, and are sometimes much
> faster
>      (see Performance).
>
>     * Dynamic inheritance: allows function calls to be forwarded
>     automatically to an object specified at runtime (see Delegation).
>
>     * Smart Interface Pointers: smart pointers which can manage the
>     lifetime of any object whose type implements a given interface.
>
>     * Smart References: like smart interface pointers, but the managed
>     object is accessed using the "dot" operator."
>
>
>
>  Tom Brinkman
>  Ronald Garcia
>  Boost Review Wizards