September 2005 - Boost-announce

[review] results xpressive
by Thomas Witt 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

Hi All, I am happy to announce that xpressive has been accepted into boost. That being said I would like to thank Eric for writing such a high quality library and all the reviewers for the significant time they spent in reviewing the library. I have received some very detailed in depth reviews of the library. This has made my job really easy. Thanks! While xpressive is accepted without conditions I'd like to point out that the test coverage should be improved in the future. Thomas Review Manager xpressive Thomas Witt witt(a)acm.org

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[TR1 Review] TR1 Formal Review Beginning
by Beman Dawes 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

The formal review of the Boost TR1 Library by John Maddock begins today, Saturday, September 24th, and runs through Wednesday, October 5th. The TR1 library provides an implementation of the C++ Technical Report on Standard Library Extensions. This library does not itself implement the TR1 components, rather it's a thin wrapper that will include your standard library's TR1 implementation (if it has one), otherwise it will include the Boost Library equivalents, and import them into namespace std::tr1. Functionality supported includes: * Reference Wrappers * Smart Pointers * Class template result_of. * Function template mem_fn. * Function Object Binders. * Polymorphic function wrappers. * Type Traits. * Random Number Generators and Distributions. * Tuples. * Tuple Interface to std::pair. * Fixed Size Array. * Hash Function Objects. * Regular Expressions. * Complex Number Algorithm Overloads. * Complex Number Additional Algorithms. Functionality in TR1 but not yet available: * Mathematical Special Functions. * Unordered Associative Set (Hash Table). * Unordered Associative Map (Hash Table). * C99 C language additions. Additional information including online documentation is available at http://freespace.virgin.net/boost.regex/tr1/index.html The complete TR1 lib source and docs can be downloaded from http://freespace.virgin.net/boost.regex/tr1/tr1-20050816.zip Please help Boost by posting your formal review of this library. Your comments may be brief or lengthy, but basically the Review Manager needs your evaluation of the library. If you identify problems along the way, please note if they are minor, serious, or showstoppers. Here are some questions you might want to answer in your review: * 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 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. --Beman Dawes, Review Manager

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[Review] xpressive review period extended
by Thomas Witt 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

Hi, after being declared half-closed (my bad) the review period for Eric Niebler's xpressive library has now been extended until Sunday Sep 25. The original announcement can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/dk2yz Some additional information is in this posting: http://tinyurl.com/dphjc Thomas Review Manager xpressive

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[Review] xpressive
by Thomas Witt 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

The review of Eric Niebler's xpressive library begins now and runs through Sunday, September 18. The library is available here: http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?directory=Strings%20-% 20Text%20Processing Here is a short introduction that I shamelessly reassembled from the xpressive documentation. xpressive is an advanced, object-oriented regular expression template library for C++. Regular expressions can be written as strings that are parsed at run-time, or as expression templates that are parsed at compile-time. xpressive brings these two approaches seamlessly together and occupies a unique niche in the world of C++ text processing. With xpressive, you can choose to use it much as you would use Boost.Regex, representing regular expressions as strings. Or you can use it as you would use Spirit, writing your regexes as C+ + expressions, enjoying all the benefits of an embedded language dedicated to text manipulation. When writing 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 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. Please send your reviews either to the Boost list or to me personally. The former is preferred, because it allows the community to consider your review as well. Thanks Thomas Witt Review Manager xpressive Thomas Witt witt(a)acm.org

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