April 2017 - Boost-announce

[boost] [review] Review of PolyCollection will start in a few days
by Ion Gaztañaga via Boost 30 Apr '17

30 Apr '17

Dear Boost community, The formal review of Joaquín M López Muñoz's PolyCollection library will start on Wednesday, May 3rd and ends on May 12th. This library implements fast containers of polymorphic objects. Typically, polymorphic objects cannot be stored directly in regular containers and need be accessed through an indirection pointer, which introduces performance problems related to CPU caching and branch prediction. Boost.PolyCollection implements a novel data structure that is able to contiguously store polymorphic objects without such indirection, thus providing a value-semantics user interface and better performance. Three polymorphic collections are provided: * boost::base_collection * boost::function_collection * boost::any_collection dealing respectively with classic base/derived or OOP polymorphism, function wrapping in the spirit of std::function and so-called duck typing as implemented by Boost.TypeErasure. If you are interested, you can start preparing your review with the following information: Repositories: Incubator: http://blincubator.com/bi_library/polycollection/?gform_post_id=1643 Github: https://github.com/joaquintides/poly_collection and the documentation here: http://rawgit.com/joaquintides/poly_collection/website/doc/html/index.html See you on Wednesday! Ion _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost

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[release] Boost 1.64.0
by Rene Rivera 20 Apr '17

20 Apr '17

Release 1.64.0 of the Boost C++ Libraries is now available. These open-source libraries work well with the C++ Standard Library, and are usable across a broad spectrum of applications. The Boost license encourages both commercial and non-commercial use. This release contains one new library and numerous enhancements and bug fixes for existing libraries. For details, including download links, see < http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_64_0.html> You can also download directly from: < https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/1.64.0/> To install this release on your system, see < http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/more/getting_started/index.html> Thanks to everyone who participated in this release. Thanks, -- The Boost Release Team Vladimir Prus, Rene Rivera, Marshall Clow, Eric Niebler, Daniel James, Beman Dawes

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[gsoc17] Help review Google Summer of Code proposals
by Niall Douglas 05 Apr '17

05 Apr '17

Dear Boost, Student proposals for Google Summer of Code are submitted, please help us decide which have the most merit. I have reduced the fifty something proposals submitted down to twenty seven which have some chance. To be able to view and rank the student proposals, please do the following: 1. Send to gsoc-admin(a)boost.org your Google login. We will invite you to view the student proposals on the Boost Google Drive. Until you receive the invitation email, you won't be able to view the proposals. 2. Go to https://goo.gl/forms/EVppdHsHMnjkcUoD3 which is a Google form where you can score the proposals. We have linked each proposal there to the Google Drive item and there you can rank a proposal between 1 and 5. Make sure you use the same email as your Google login in the form, otherwise we will ignore any forms submitted to prevent gaming the results. 3. Even if you can't rank all twenty seven proposals, try to do as many as you can and then PRESS SUBMIT at the end of the form (forgetting to press SUBMIT means we never get your rankings). The proposals are presented in random order per person so any work you do will be useful. 4. Please try to have your rankings done by Monday 10th. You may find reviewing the page at https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2017 useful. 5. Finally, if you'd like to mentor any of the proposals, send to gsoc-admin(a)boost.org your Google login so we may invite you onto the Google website as a mentor. Many thanks in advance. Niall & Bryce

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