Re: [scope] Scope review starts on November 26th

From: Richard Hodges (hodges.r_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-11-28 19:15:17

On Fri, 24 Nov 2023 at 21:58, Дмитрий Архипов via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Dear Boost community. The peer review of the proposed Boost.Scope will
> start on
> 26th of November and continue until December 5th. Boost.Scope is a small
> library implementing utilities defined in
> <experimental/scope> from C++ Extensions for Library Fundamentals v3
> with a few extensions. Namely, the library contains:
> * A number of scope guards for various use cases.
> * A unique resource wrapper that automatically frees the resource on
> destruction.
> * Utilities for wrapping POSIX-like file descriptors in the unique
> resource wrapper.
>
> You can find the source code of the library at
> https://github.com/Lastique/scope and read the documentation at
> https://lastique.github.io/scope/libs/scope/doc/html/index.html. The
> library
> is header-only and thus it is fairly easy to try it out. In addition, the
> library can be used with Conan and vcpkg (see its README for instructions
> on
> how to do that). Finally, there's a single header version suitable for
> Compiler
> Explorer (
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Lastique/scope/single-header/include/boost/scope.hpp
> ).
>

Very nice little library, thank you.
Complete and easy to understand. I will certainly use it if it makes it
into Boost.

>
> As the library is not domain-specific, everyone is very welcome to
> contribute a
> review either by sending it to the Boost mailing list, or me personally. In
> your review please state whether you recommend to reject or accept the
> library
> into Boost, and whether you suggest any conditions for acceptance.
>
> Thanks in advance for your time and effort!
>
> Dmitry Arkhipov, Staff Engineer at The C++ Alliance.
>
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