Re: [boost] Summer of Code 2010

Subject: Re: [boost] Summer of Code 2010
From: David Bergman (David.Bergman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-07 17:04:52

I agree (with whatever point you were trying to make.) The concern of  
what you call "dataflow iterator adapter" is definitely quite  
separated from specific codepoint or encoding concerns.

/David

NOTE: yes, I top posted here sorry.

Typed on an iPhone

On Mar 7, 2010, at 4:59 PM, "Robert Ramey" <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Andrew Sutton wrote:
>>> Concerning Unicode, I did the foolish choice this year of working
>>> full-time as the same time as I finish my studies, which hasn't left
>>> me as much free time as I would have liked it to.
>>> I will be resuming work on it this summer, however, as I am quite
>>> keen on getting it into Boost.
>
>>> One concern I have is that it is quite close to Boost.Iterator,
>>> Boost.Range, Boost.RangeEx and Boost.StringAlgo, and I would like my
>>> changes to be added as improvement upon those libraries if possible.
>>> But I guess proposing everything under Boost.Unicode makes it quite
>>> easier to review and all.
>
> Here is some information which may or may not be relevant here.
>
> a) A number of years ago, I needed a codecvt facet to output UTF-8.
> I found one written by our own Ron Garcia.  I checked
> it in as part of the seriailization library.  It's been hassle free  
> for all
> this
> time. I believe that others have used it as well.
>
> b) As I recall, the original code also included the above conversion
> as an iterator - I don't see that code around any more.
>
> c) Also as part of the library I needed a bunch of converters
> (multi-byte <-> unicode, etc) which needed to be composed with
> a bunch of other filters (base64, etc.).  I made "dataflow iterators"
> which use just the addition of templated constructors to the boost
> iterators. All this has worked well as large part of the  
> implementation
> occurs at compile time.
>
> d) In the meantime boost.iostreams got made which also included
> some of this facility.  This code isn't part of the codecvt facet
> machinery - which is where I would think it should be.
>
> Soooooo - from my perspective, I would like to see.
>
> a) templated constructors added to boost.iterators
> b) a bunch of iterator adaptors - some of which are like "dataflow
> iterators".
> c) a class for construction a codecvt facet out any iterator adaptor.
>
> Previous efforts at a unicode library have seemed to bog down
> in codepoints and whole lot of other stuff I don't understand.
>
> I don't know that I have a real point here.  But for a long time
> it has seemed to be a lost opportunity to unify a bunch of stuff
> which seems to be re-invented all the time.
>
> Robert Ramey
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