February 2009 - Boost-announce

[1.38.0] PDF package of Boost documentation released.
by John Maddock 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

Folks, A package containing PDF versions of Boost's documentation is now available for Boost-1.38.0 from the usual sourceforge download site: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7586&package_id=15971… Please note that due to the diverse range of tools in use within Boost it has not been possible to produce PDF's for all of Boost's libraries, those currently included as PDF's are: accumulators any array asio bimap range complex-tr1 concepts config conversion date_time foreach function hash interprocess intrusive iterator math-gcd math mpi octonion optional phoenix program_options proto python_tutorial quaternion ref regex scope_exit signals static_assert string_algo thread tr1 tribool type_traits typeof units unordered variant xpressive Documentation for the following tools are also included in this package: bjam boost_build boostbook quickbook Regards, John Maddock.

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[boost] Formal Review: Boost.RangeEx
by Thorsten Ottosen 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

Dear Developers and Users, It's my pleasure to announce that the review of Neil Groves' RangeEx library starts today and lasts until March 3, 2009. What is it? +++++++++++ The library provide two very useful extensions to the range library 1. Range-based algorithms. E.g. boost::sort( rng ); which is a convenient wrapper of instead of std::sort( boost::begin(rng), boost::end(rng) ); But the new interface also allows for more expressive code because (on the fly) composition of algorithms suddenly is possible. 2. Range adaptors. E.g. std::vector<int> vec = ...; boost::copy( vec | boost::adaptors::reversed, std::ostream_iterator<int>( std::cout ) ); where the expression "vec | boost::adaptors::reversed" wraps the iterators of the range on the left in reverse iterators. The library provides a wide range (no pun intended) of Range adaptors, and they are a powerful way to create ranges on the fly and pass them to algorithms. Getting the library +++++++++++++++++++ The library may be downloaded from http://www.cs.aau.dk/~nesotto/boost/range_ex.zip or from the Boost vault under "Algorithms". The docs may be browsed online here http://www.cs.aau.dk/~nesotto/boost/libs/range/ Please note that the documentation is integrated with the current Range ilbrary. Therefore the relevant sections for the review is http://www.cs.aau.dk/~nesotto/boost/libs/range/doc/adaptors.html and http://www.cs.aau.dk/~nesotto/boost/libs/range/doc/algorithms.html The code may be browsed here: http://www.cs.aau.dk/~nesotto/boost/boost/range/ Notice the library is header only (exception: the adaptor tokenized() depends on Boost.Regex). Writing a review ++++++++++++++++ If you feel this is an interesting library, then please submit your review to the developer list (preferably), or to the review manager. 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. Special considerations ++++++++++++++++++++++ Various RangeEx like libraries have been implemented in the past. You might want to compare with those libraries when you form your oppinion: 1. John Torjo's range lib http://rangelib.synesis.com.au/libs/boost-rangelib-20040913.zip http://torjo.com/rangelib/index.html 2. Adobe's ASL libraries include range-based algorithms: http://stlab.adobe.com/group__algorithm.html I'm looking forward to your review. best regards Thorsten, Review Manager _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost

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Boost 1.38.0 released
by Beman Dawes 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

Boost 1.38.0 has been released and is available from SourceForge. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/ This release includes three new libraries: Flyweight, ScopeExit, and Swap. Updated Libraries: Accumulators, Any, Asio, Config, Date_Time, Exception, Filesystem, Graph, Hash, Interprocess, Intrusive, Lexical Cast, Math, Multi-index Containers, Proto, Regex, Thread, TR1, Type Traits, Unordered, and Xpressive. Other Changes: Experimental CMake build system. You can read the full release announcement here: http://www.boost.org/users/news/version_1_38_0 The release managers were Beman Dawes, Daniel James, Eric Niebler, and Rene Rivera. --Beman Dawes

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