[boost] Synapse library review starts today December 2

Subject: [boost] Synapse library review starts today December 2
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-12-02 09:19:11

The formal review of the Synapse library by Emil Dotchevski starts 
today, December 2, and is scheduled to continue through December 11. 
This gives two full weekends and the week in between for the formal review.

Synapse is a signal programming library, similar to Boost Signals2 and 
the signals-slots system in Qt. The main difference is that Synapse is
non-intrusive: the address of any object of any static type whatsoever 
can be passed to synapse::emit to emit a signal. This makes it possible 
to emit Synapse signals from objects of third-party types as well as 
system objects (e.g. standard FILE pointers, HWNDs, etc.) or any other 
object that can be converted to a pointer.

The library has been formatted to fit the Boost directory and namespace 
structure. To get Synapse, clone
'https://github.com/zajo/boost-synapse.git' into a directory called 
'synapse' under your boost/libs directory.

See the tutorial at
'http://zajo.github.io/boost-synapse/Tutorial.html', or read full 
documentation at 'http://zajo.github.io/boost-synapse/index.html'. You 
can also view the documentation locally from your clone of the library 
at boost/libs/synapse/doc/index.html.

Review guidelines
=================

Reviews should be submitted to the developer list 
(boost_at_[hidden]), preferably with '[synapse]' in the subject. Or 
if you don't wish to for some reason or are not subscribed to the 
developer list you can send them privately to me at 'eldiener at 
tropicsoft dot com'. If so, please let me know whether or not you'd like 
your review to be forwarded to the list.

For your review you may wish to consider the following questions:

      - 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?

And finally, every review should attempt to answer this question:

      - Do you think the library should be accepted as a Boost library?

Be sure to say this explicitly so that your other comments don't obscure 
your overall opinion.

Even if you do not wish to give a full review any technical comment 
regarding the library is welcome as part of the review period and will 
help me as the review manager decide whether the library should be 
accepted as a Boost library. Any questions about the use of the library 
are also welcome.

I encourage all programmers with an interest or knowledge of signal/slot 
processing to be part of the review or discussion of the Synapse library 
as your time permits.