Re: [boost] Report from Berlin C++ Standards Committee meeting

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-09 17:59:14

Beman Dawes wrote:
> The C++ Standards Committee met last week in Berlin, Germany. Of interest to 
> Boosters:

Thx for the update -- interesting as usual.  Looks like the committee 
was busy!

> * A Boost Date-Time query was presented at the last meeting, and LWG members 
> again in Berlin indicated interest in seeing a full proposal for TR2.

The complete date-time proposal will be available for Portland and I 
expect to be at the meeting as well.

> * A Boost Networking [asio] query was presented, and the LWG has indicated 
> their interest in a full proposal for TR2. The developer of a competing 
> proposal has graciously thrown his support behind the Boost proposal, and 
> may propose some additional higher level functionality.

I have some interest and concerns about the asio as a pure networking 
proposal -- it's really an io library proposal with networking.  As 
such, there are some issues not currently addressed by the library that 
I can see the committee being worried about.  In any case, I can see 
Chris needing a helping hand to get this done in time -- presuming that 
he is still able to pursue this deadline.  Can you point us to the 
competing proposal/developer?  We should probably organize a group of 
interested folks to help this along given the scope and importance of 
the job.

> This coming October is the deadline for TR2 proposals. See 
> www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1810.html

I'd still really like to see a database binding library make it into 
TR2.  Not having this is killing C++ against Java for application 
developers.  We've had some periodic fits and starts, but it seems clear 
we won't have a Boost library by then.  I'd still like to see someone 
with some time step up and take this on.  It's been done about 10 times 
so I think a proposal could be gleaned from the best of the current 
bindings...

Jeff