My apologies for the delay in this posting, but the review period
for
the Time Series library submitted by Eric Neibler runs from Monday, July
30 until Wednesday, August 8. From the documentation:
The purpose of the Boost.Time_series library is to provide data
structures, numerical operators and algorithms to operate on time
series. A time series is a series of data points, sampled at regular
intervals. The library provides numerous time series containers, each
with different time/space trade-offs, and a hierarchy of concepts which
allow the time series to be manipulated generically. The library also
provides operators and algorithms which use the generic interfaces to
perform calculations on time series and accumulate various statistics
about them.
Boost.Time_series does not yet contain all the algorithms one might
want in order to perform full time series analysis. However, the key
contribution of Boost.Time_series is the framework and the rich
hierarchy of concepts with which such algorithms can be written to
efficiently and generically process series of data with widely
divergent in-memory representations and performance characteristics.
Boost.Time_series provides several such series containers, as well as
mechanisms for defining additional series types and algorithms that fit
within the framework. Some examples of series types that are provided
are: dense, sparse, piecewise constant, heaviside and others, as well
as adaptors for providing shifted, scaled and clipped series views.
Please notice that the Time Series library uses some features of
boost that will be part off the 1.35 release, but are not I the 1.34.1
release. For testing, you will need to either test against CVS Head
(Which will not be available for much of Tuesday.) or use backports
provided in the time series download files to update your 1.34.x
installation.
The library is available from
http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?directory=Math%20-%
20Numerics
or by following the link provided on the review schedule.
Thanks to all for your time and effort on this review.
John Phillips
Review Manager
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ACM SIGPLAN SYMPOSIUM ON LIBRARY-CENTRIC SOFTWARE DESIGN - LCSD'07
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A software library is an organized collection of code with associated
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Boost 1.34.1, the latest version of peer-reviewed, portable C++
libraries,
has been released. This is a bug fix release addressing many problems
with the 1.34.0 release. It is a recommended upgrade for all users of
Boost 1.34.0. For a complete list of fixes see the Boost Trac at:
http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/query?status=closed&milestone=Boost
+1.34.1
Supported Compilers:
New in this release is improved support for the IBM XL C/C++ compiler.
Boost is tested on a wide range of compilers and platforms. Since Boost
libraries rely on modern C++ features not available in all compilers,
not
all Boost libraries will work with every compiler. The following
compilers
and platforms have been extensively tested with Boost, although many
other compilers and platforms will work as well. For more information,
see the regression test results.
* Apple GCC 4.0.1 on Mac OS X.
* Borland C++ 5.8.2 on Windows.
* GNU C++
o 3.2.x., 3.3.x, 3.4.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.x on Linux
o 4.1.x on Solaris
o 3.4.x on Windows
* HP C++ for Tru64 UNIX 7.1.
* HP aC++ A.06.14.
* Intel C++ 9.1 on Windows, 9.0 on Linux.
* Metrowerks CodeWarrior 9.4 on Windows.
* Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 (sp5, with and without STLport), 7.0,
7.1, 8.0.
Note: Boost does not support the non-standard "Safe" C++ Library
shipping with Visual C++ 8.0, which may result in many
spurious
warnings from Boost headers and other standards-conforming
C++ code. To suppress these warnings,
define the macro _SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE.
* Sun Studio 11 on Solaris.
Acknowledgements
Thomas Witt managed this release.
A great number of people contributed their time and expertise to make
this
release possible. Special thanks go to Kim Barrett consolidating
Boost.Iostreams
changes from various branches and Rene Rivera for general build and
installation support.
--
Thomas Witt
witt(a)acm.org
