[boost] Meta State Machine library review starts Monday

Subject: [boost] Meta State Machine library review starts Monday
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-22 23:07:08

Dear all,

With apologies for making this announcement so close to the review start
date...

The review of the Boost.Msm library starts this Monday, November 23rd
and ends the December 6th. Msm was written by Christophe Henry, inspired
in part by the example in the book "C++ Template Metaprogramming"
(http://boostpro.com/mplbook)

About the library:

Msm (Meta State Machine) is a library allowing the user to easily define
high-performance, straightforward and readable UML2 finite state
machines, while respecting the principles of efficiency and
declarativeness of the original example.  To that end, Msm offers
several Domain-Specific Embedded Languages that strive to closely
emulate a standard UML diagram.

Msm supports a broad range of UML features:
- state entry/exit
- transition actions/guards
- composite states
- history
- orthogonal regions
- terminate states
- deferred events
- explicit entry/fork
- entry/exit pseudostates
- anonymous transitions
- transition conflicts

And several non-standard features to make the developer's life easier
(interrupt states, query about the current state(s)).

Msm (in its current version, 2.0) can be found:

* in the sandbox (http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/msm/)
* or in the vault: (http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?directory=Msm)

Everybody on this list is invited to participate in this formal
review. I hope to see your review of Msm, including your vote on
acceptance, and I welcome your participation in the ensuing discussions
on the Boost developers' mailing list.

Please always include in your review a vote as to whether the library
should be accepted into Boost.

Additionally please consider giving feedback on the following general
topics:

- What is your evaluation of the design?
- What is your evaluation of the implementation?
- What is your evaluation of the documentation?
- What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the library?
- Did you try to use the library?  
  - With what compiler?  
  - Did you have any problems?
- How much effort did you put into your evaluation? A glance? A quick
reading? In-depth study?
- Are you knowledgeable about the problem domain?

Regards,

-- 
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Review Manager
BoostPro Computing
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