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Subject: Re: [boost] [Review][Ratio] Boost.Ratio has been ACCEPTED
From: vicente.botet (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-01 09:09:03


Hi,
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From: "Anthony Williams" <anthony.ajw_at_[hidden]>
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Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 4:20 PM
Subject: [boost] [Review][Ratio] Boost.Ratio has been ACCEPTED

>
> Hi,
>
> I am pleased to announce that Boost.Ratio has been ACCEPTED into Boost.
>
> A few changes were requested by the reviewers, which I will list
> below. I know that Vicente has already started working on some of
> these. These changes should be addressed before the library appears in a
> Boost release.
>
> * Some of the macros had names with RATIO_RATIO in. These should be
> changed to just RATIO
>
> * The ratio_add, ratio_sub, ratio_multiply and ratio_divide templates
> should derive from the resulting ratio type as well as providing the
> nested ::type member, in order to closely emulate the template alias
> facility from C++0x
>
> * The typos in the documentation should be fixed, and the documentation
> reviewed for correctness and clarity (though several of the reviewers
> made positive comments on the quality of the documentation).
>
> * The library needs more tests under the Boost Software License.
>
> * All references to names from the boost namespace should be qualified
> with boost:: to avoid potential name clashes and ambiguity with names
> from the global namespace.
>
> * Sections commented out with #if 0 should be removed
>
> * The extensions beyond the facilities required by the C++0x draft
> should be able to be enabled or disabled through use of a
> configuration macro.
>
> * References to the tests, examples and documentation from within the
> code should be checked for correctness.

I've taken in account the requested changes. Paul Bristol is reviewing now the documentation, but he will prefer to fix some issues on trunk.

I want to know if I can move to trunk now.

Thanks,
Vicente


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