Re: [boost] [Boost-announce] [afio] Formal review of Boost.AFIO

Subject: Re: [boost] [Boost-announce] [afio] Formal review of Boost.AFIO
From: Giovanni Piero Deretta (gpderetta_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-08-31 05:09:51

I'm halfway thru writing a review, but won't be able to finish it till
alter today.
On 31 Aug 2015 9:13 am, "Ahmed Charles" <acharles_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> I have reviews from the following people:
>
>
>
> Roland Bock <rbock_at_[hidden]>
> Paul A. Bristow <pbristow_at_[hidden]>
>
> Thomas Heller <thom.heller_at_[hidden]>
> Hartmut Kaiser <hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden]>
>
> Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jeremy_at_[hidden]>
>
> If you've sent a review and I've missed it, do let me know. There have
> been lots of emails this week and I want to make sure I've caught all of
> the reviews.
>
> On 8/22/2015 6:08 PM, Ahmed Charles wrote:
> > The formal review of the Boost.AFIO library starts, August 21st and ends
> > on Monday August 31st.
> >
> > Boost.AFIO provides a portable API implementing synchronous and
> > asynchronous race-free filesystem and scatter-gather file i/o. It
> requires
> > a minimum of C++ 11. It has minimum dependencies on a Filesystem TS and a
> > Networking TS implementation (e.g. Boost.Filesystem and Boost.ASIO).
> > Backends are provided for the Windows NT kernel and POSIX.
> >
> > The utility of a portable library providing strong concurrent race
> > guarantees about filesystem and file i/o can be seen in its tutorial
> where
> > a transactional ACID key-value store is built from first principles.
> >
> > Boost.AFIO was brought to Boost as part of GSoC 2013 and Niall Douglas
> has
> > continued to develop and improve the library since then, generating two
> > internal implementation libraries Boost.APIBind and Boost.Monad which are
> > expected to be separately brought for Boost review in 2016.
> >
> > The documentation can be found here:
> > https://boostgsoc13.github.io/boost.afio/doc/html/afio.html
> >
> > The source code can be found here:
> > https://github.com/BoostGSoC13/boost.afio/tree/boost-peer-review
> >
> > Online web compiler playpen can be found here:
> > http://melpon.org/wandbox/permlink/DR8wCpu5Rl20GMdM?
> >
> >
> > Please answer the following questions:
> >
> > 1. Should Boost.AFIO be accepted into Boost? Please state all
> >   conditions for acceptance explicity.
> > 2. What is your evaluation of the design?
> > 3. What is your evaluation of the implementation?
> > 4. What is your evaluation of the documentation?
> > 5. What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the library?
> > 6. Did you try to use the library? With what compiler? Did you have
> >   any problems?
> > 7. How much effort did you put into your evaluation? A glance? A quick
> >   reading? In-depth study?
> > 8. Are you knowledgeable about the problem domain?
> >
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