Re: [boost] [iostreams] Is anyone maintaining Boost.IOStreams?

Subject: Re: [boost] [iostreams] Is anyone maintaining Boost.IOStreams?
From: Zachary Turner (divisortheory_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-11 16:48:57

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Richard Smith <richard_at_[hidden]>wrote:

>
> I've just looked through the list of bugs for the iostreams library:
>
>  https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/report/14?USER=anonymous&page=4
>
>  From a quick scan, it looks like this library is not being
>>
> maintained any more.  Is this true?  Just scratching to scratch the
> surface, the following dozen bugs seem to be to all be trivial to fix.  Many
> have patches, and the others have a sufficiently clear description that
> fixing them should only be a couple of minutes' work.
>
>  2094 -- has a patch that ought to be uncontroversial
>  2154 -- relates to code that seems not to exist any longer
>  2817 -- proposed resolution seems straightforward
>  2894 -- seems pretty straightforward
>  2932 -- would be trivial to fix, assuming a fix is desired
>  3010 -- appears to have been fixed
>  3011 -- has a patch that ought to be uncontroversial
>  3197 -- trivial suggestion to remove a compiler warning
>  3311 -- obviously an error and trivial to fix
>  3352 -- looks like a genuine subtle bug; includes a patch
>  3403 -- minor documentation niggle, complete with patch
>  3505 -- looks a genuine bug and includes patches
>
> Some of the other bugs look pretty serious to me, and I might be inclined
> to spend some time investigating them if I thought there was any realistic
> chance of the resulting patches being accepted.
>
>
2817 would be a really, really helpful fix, for me anyway.