Re: [OpenMethod] Boost.OpenMethod review scheduled

From: Christian Mazakas (christian.mazakas_at_[hidden])
Date: 2025-04-11 16:36:07

On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 6:25 AM Дмитрий Архипов via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> The review for the proposed Boost.OpenMethod library by Jean-Louis
> Leroy is scheduled to take place from April 28 to May 07.
>
> OpenMethods solve the Expression Problem by making it possible to define
> free
> virtual functions, i.e. virtual functions that exist outside of a class
>
> The library repository is here: https://github.com/jll63/Boost.OpenMethod.
> The documentation is here: https://jll63.github.io/Boost.OpenMethod.
>

Piggybacking on this, I'd like to take this opportunity to demo a new
workflow for Boost review!

I'm hoping some brave souls will help me out and attempt this. It's a vcpkg
registry full of Boost and libraries under review:
https://github.com/cmazakas/vcpkg-registry-test

The repo even comes with an OpenMethod demo as well. Hopefully this'll make
it a bit easier for people to try out the library without interrupting
their workflows.

The library (OpenMethod) should automatically download along with all of
the required dependencies and is non-intrusive to existing boost roots we
may all be developing against.

If you're unfamiliar with vcpkg, the docs for it can be found here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcpkg/

But a basic setup of the tool will basically be:

    git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg.git
    cd vcpkg
    ./bootstrap-vcpkg.sh

>From there, you'll find the cmake toolchain file located in
`vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake`

This toolchain file is what basically drives the entire UX for vcpkg. The
repo (vcpkg-registry-test) should have instructions if you're still unclear.

For people with existing installs of vcpkg, make sure you do a `git pull`
to get the latest commits of vcpkg because this is what helps power the
registry and the required vcpkg-configuration.json.

- Christian