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A GUI Library
by jinhao 09 Nov '17

09 Nov '17

Hi, all I am developing a GUI library, it takes aim at easy-to-use and portable library for modern C++ methods. The project at http://stdex.sourceforge.net A git repository at http://nanapro.codeplex.com A brief at http://nanaproject.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/preliminary-study-of-nana-c-lib… Is there any interest in this library? Regards Jinhao

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Re: [boost] Boost CRC maintainer (Daryle Walker) missing in action?
by Olaf van der Spek 19 Jun '17

19 Jun '17

Hi Daryle, Any luck on your new setup? Gr, Olaf On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Daryle Walker <darylew(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I can look at it once I've finished my new setup. > > I had to reset my computer after a partial crash years ago. I never > got around to recreating my programming setup. My computer had been > at its maximum Operating System level back then, which is now 3 > versions behind. For the past few months, I've had my sister's old > laptop, with Windows Vista, and am trying to add a programming setup > to it now. > > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Beman Dawes <bdawes(a)acm.org> wrote: >> Hi Daryle, >> >> This guy has volunteered to take over maintenance of Boost CRC. Should >> we take him up on his offer? > >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: >> Date: Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:51 AM >> Subject: [boost] Boost CRC maintainer (Daryle Walker) missing in action? >> To: boost(a)lists.boost.org >> >> >> Hi, >> >> It looks like the Boost CRC maintainer (Daryle Walker) is missing in action? >> >> No response to tickets from the past 3 years. What's the procedure in this case? >> >> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2492 >> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/query?component=crc&col=id&col=summary&col… > > -- > Daryle Walker > Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie > darylew AT gmail DOT com -- Olaf

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[msm] [statechart] unmerged PRs
by András Kucsma 23 May '17

23 May '17

Hi Everyone, There are a couple of PRs for msm and statechart by me and others, which didn't get any attention for many months now. Can the maintainers please take a look at them? https://github.com/boostorg/msm/pulls https://github.com/boostorg/statechart/pulls Thank you, Andras

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[clang] clang-cl expansion of macros
by Edward Diener 29 Apr '17

29 Apr '17

You can get clang-cl ( clang-win ) to show its VC++ emulated expansion of macros somewhat by passing the c++ option '-fmacro-backtrace-limit=0' to the compiler. It is still blessedly difficult to see the what and the why of clang's error messages when expanding macro using clang-cl, but at least it gives you a better chance of understanding where clang's emulation of VC++ has gone wrong. I have posted bug 27380 to the llvm/clang bug tracker at https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=27380 showing the main failure in VC++ emulation which I see when testing Boost PP with clang-cl.

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[container] moving a pre-built vector into a flat_set
by Sam Kellett 12 Mar '17

12 Mar '17

a common problem i encounter is that i have two stage's w/r/t to a large collection of data: building and querying. vector is obviously the king of building. flat_set is the king of querying. so what i often tend to do is build up a very large vector, sort it then create a flat_set using the flat_set(ordered_unique_t) constructor. however this still copies the entire vector into the flat_set, right? what i would like to be able to do is move the vector straight into the flat_set, something like: std::vector<T> data; flat_set data_set1(std::move(data)) // move vector in and sort it // or: std::sort(data.begin(), data.end()); // sort vector flat_set data_set2(ordered_unique_t, std::move(data)) // and move it in is this doable (am i just being blind?) or is there plans/interest for this?

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[nowide] Library Updates
by Artyom Beilis 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

Hello, Disclaimer: --------------- I recently discovered that virtually all e-mails sent from Yahoo account to any mailing lists go to user's spam due to recent Yahoo's DMARC policy. So I'm sending some important stuff from GMail account that almost certainly was missed: What is Boost.Nowide: -------------------------------- Boost.Nowide is a library that make cross platform Unicode aware programming easier. The library provides an implementation of standard C and C++ library functions, such that their inputs are UTF-8 aware on Windows without requiring to use Wide API. It was inspiration and inspired by http://utf8everywhere.org/ development ideas and policy. Some updates regarding Boost.Nowide ------------------------------- 1. Library moved to github and its format is converted to modular boost layout: https://github.com/artyom-beilis/nowide 2. Fixed unsupported std::ios::ate flag by boost::nowide::fstream 3. Added some C++11 interfaces to boost::nowide::fstream 4. Added integration functionality with boost::filesystem: https://github.com/artyom-beilis/nowide/blob/master/include/boost/nowide/in… Note: that the links to the source code on review schedule aren't relevant, it should be: - Code: https://github.com/artyom-beilis/nowide - Documentation: http://cppcms.com/files/nowide/html/ Also the library is still looking for review manager. Artyom Beilis P.S.: I'm sorry if you are getting this as "duplicate"

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bad include guards
by Steven Watanabe 26 Jan '17

26 Jan '17

AMDG The following pairs of files have identical include guards ./boost/concept_check/general.hpp ./boost/concept/detail/msvc.hpp ./boost/concept_check/msvc.hpp ./boost/concept/detail/msvc.hpp ./boost/filesystem/cerrno.hpp ./boost/cerrno.hpp ./boost/interprocess/containers/tree.hpp ./boost/interprocess/containers/detail/tree.hpp ./boost/mpl/min_max.hpp ./boost/mpl/max.hpp ./boost/mpl/vector/aux_/front.hpp ./boost/mpl/list/aux_/front.hpp ./boost/multi_index/identity_fwd.hpp ./boost/multi_index/identity.hpp ./boost/python/pointee.hpp ./boost/python/detail/pointee.hpp ./boost/spirit/phoenix/closures.hpp ./boost/lambda/closures.hpp ./boost/xpressive/proto/v1_/proto_typeof.hpp ./boost/xpressive/proto/proto_typeof.hpp ./libs/config/test/boost_no_dep_nested_class.ipp ./libs/config/test/boost_has_vc6_mem_templ.ipp ./libs/config/test/boost_no_mem_templates.ipp ./libs/config/test/boost_has_vc6_mem_templ.ipp ./libs/config/test/boost_no_std_allocator.ipp ./libs/config/test/boost_has_vc6_mem_templ.ipp ./libs/conversion/test.hpp ./libs/any/test.hpp ./libs/interprocess/example/print_container.hpp ./libs/interprocess/example/printcontainer.hpp ./libs/interprocess/test/expand_bwd_test_template.hpp ./libs/interprocess/test/allocation_test_template.hpp ./libs/interprocess/test/printcontainer.hpp ./libs/interprocess/example/printcontainer.hpp ./libs/interprocess/test/print_container.hpp ./libs/interprocess/example/printcontainer.hpp ./libs/iostreams/test/detail/utf8_codecvt_facet.hpp ./boost/detail/utf8_codecvt_facet.hpp ./libs/regex/test/regress/test_regex_search.hpp ./libs/regex/test/regress/test_partial_match.hpp ./libs/serialization/test/C.hpp ./libs/serialization/test/A.hpp ./libs/xpressive/perf/regex_comparison.hpp ./libs/regex/performance/regex_comparison.hpp ./tools/inspect/time_string.hpp ./tools/common/time_string.hpp In Christ, Steven Watanabe

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Generating Boost documentation with pandoc
by Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

Has anyone tried to generate Boost-styled documentation using pandoc? I never fully liked PDF documentation because I never actually print documentation. However, a few weeks ago I got an ebook reader and I've been fascinated by the ePUB format. I'm using it to read even the IETF's RFCs and it's very pleasant. I'm using ePUB to read files even on my usual laptop. Anyway, I was wondering how nice would be to have an ePUB file containing the whole Boost documentation. pandoc has docbook support as one of its input formats and is capable of generating great ePUB output. -- Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira https://vinipsmaker.github.io/

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[MPL] A Proposal
by Bruno Dutra 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

Dear Community, About a year ago today, there was a proliferation of threads [1][2][3] in this mailing list concerning the future of Boost.MPL, or even whether it had a future at all, and opinions diverged widely on the matter. Many have expressed concerns about the fact Boost.MPL was long outdated and proposed major changes to open path for modernization, while some others argued against it, fearing unexpected and disastrous side-effects could propagate throughout the rest of Boost. A few questioned if it was worth it at all to spend any further resources on Boost.MPL given the fact new alternatives were coming up, such as Boost.Hana, which departed entirely from template metaprogramming, yet some argued TMP remained a competitive alternative for type computations in C++14 as it has been demonstrated by Peter Dimov in his impressive articles [4] on modern TMP. Amidst all this, a proposal by Robert Ramey [5] caught my attention and inspired me to develop what I call Metal [6], a template metaprogramming library designed on the same core principles as Boost.MPL, but written from the very beginning to take full advantage of C++11. Metal was not designed to be a strict drop in replacement for Boost.MPL though, it was rather meant to be regarded as a modern version of Boost.MPL's original API, diverging only where it could really benefit from modern C++ and that essentially means gains of several orders of magnitude in performance** and lower memory consumption. At this point Metal is very close to where I originally intended to bring it and I think it's time I gauge interest from the community on a modest proposal I've been maturing along the past year. As a modern approach to the same task that Boost.MPL was meant to address, I don't believe Boost would benefit at all from yet another TMP library that would essentially compete with Boost.MPL and even Boost.Hana in some cases, specially as maintainers of older code that depends on Boost.MPL would have to go through major refactoring efforts in order to benefit from such an addition to Boost. I would like to propose something different instead. My proposal is to make Metal officially into a new revision of Boost.MPL's API, essentially MPL2 as the original proposal by Robert Ramey put it, merging both into one single TMP library. The idea would be to provide a thin proxy for the current Boost.MPL API which would have two backends configurable by preprocessor switches: the original implementation and a another one based on Metal. This way older code using Boost.MPL could see immediate gains on performance by selecting the newer backend on supported compilers, while at the same time legacy code maintained on older compilers could still rely on Boost.MPL's impressive ability to run virtually anywhere. On the other hand, newer projects interested on pure type computations would have the newer API entirely available to them. This proposal also overcomes the problem of dealing with the maintainability of Boost.MPL, since it provides a way for smooth transition from legacy hacks required by ancient compilers into a cleaner and easier to maintain C++11 codebase, besides avoiding any breaking changes within existing code in the process. Furthermore, should this proposal make it into Boost, I would be naturally willing to take responsibility for the maintenance of Boost.MPL, which AFAIK has been maintained by the CMT for quite some time now, often with limited resources. Comparing Metal and Boost.MPL there are a few noteworthy differences. Metafunction Classes have proven themselves entirely unnecessary and have thus been removed altogether in favour of pure Lambdas (in the Boost.MPL sense). Moreover, iterators make little sense in a functional world, so these too have been removed despite the fact they may easily be emulated in the new design. Moreover Metal develops the concept of optionals, that is, its metafunctions only have a nested ::type defined when they may be successfully computed, what may be safely tested using metal::is_just and may also be used to SFINAE out of miscomputations. Finally I'd like to point out that Metal was designed to be portable across as many compilers as possible and three of the most popular ones are continuously tested using Travis and Appveyor: Clang 3.5+, GCC 4.8+ and MSVC 14 (2015). I hope this is a reasonable proposal and I look forward into your opinions about it. ** Even though I haven't published any benchmarks yet, an example follows just to back my claims regarding performance (just tested on my personal laptop running linux): //Generate a list containing 10 thousand instances of std::integral_constant, from 0 to 9999 using l = metal::enumerate_t<metal::integer<10000>>; // GCC 5.3 ~0.4 s // Clang 3.7 ~0.5 s //Transform a list containing 5 thousand numbers by squaring each element using l1 = metal::enumerate_t<metal::number<long long, 5000>>; using l2 = metal::transform_t<metal::pow<metal::_1, metal::integer<2>>, l1>; // GCC 5.3 ~5.6 s // Clang 3.7 ~3.0 s [1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/257680 [2]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/257983 [3]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/258843 [4]: http://pdimov.com/cpp2/simple_cxx11_metaprogramming.html [5]: http://rrsd.com/blincubator.com/bi_suggestion/mpl-lite-or-mpl2/ [6]: http://brunocodutra.github.io/metal/ Regards, Bruno Dutra

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Fuzzy string search to the Boost String Algortihm
by Зайцев Александр 19 Sep '16

19 Sep '16

Hello. I want to discuss about some proposals. I am working on Levenshtein distance and Damerau-Levenshtein distance algortihms. I hope, that these implementations will be pulled to the Boost String library. But i think that we can add to the Boost String Library some more algorithms for fuzzy searhing. I mean these algortihms: Levenshtein distance Damerau-Levenshtein distance Bitap algorithm with modifications by Wu and Manber Spell-checker method N-gram method Signature hashing method BK-trees What do you think about this idea? If you think that it can be implemented to the Boost String Algo, i will start work on this list immediately. Best regards, Zaitsev Alexander.

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[release] Boost 1.62.0 Beta 1
by Rene Rivera 14 Sep '16

14 Sep '16

The first beta packages for 1.62.0 beta 1 are now available: <https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.61.0.beta.1/> The SHA256 checksums are as follows: f7cc83e6a3b03cd7aa8822992aa3e36422cc2214644d69277ef55a4db51f44bd boost_1_62_0_b1.7z 4057993811e40b1fd4719675e44c2550b6c2379546192da2299c17fec9a3dddf boost_1_62_0_b1.tar.bz2 fb0c10b625c5ec47cc837b54740540e400c59571b2eabf427c00f32bffc6ca70 boost_1_62_0_b1.tar.gz b38ef21c43c5ff814a2144bc23871c134164e7f51c71672d0f49a44636fb50b5 boost_1_62_0_b1.zip As always, the release managers would appreciate it if you download the archive of your choice and give building it a try. Please report both success and failure, and anything else that is noteworthy. Thanks! -- The release managers -- -- Rene Rivera -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Robot Dreams - http://robot-dreams.net -- rrivera/acm.org (msn) - grafikrobot/aim,yahoo,skype,efnet,gmail

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Gmane going away
by Tom Kent 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

So it looks like Gmane is under attack and the guy who runs it is thinking about just turning it off (that would be sad). https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/ Anyway, I know a lot of boost users use is as the gnu mailman archive pages are really hard to use. I would like to propose that we (specifically the list owner(s)) mirror the boost mailing lists to the mail-archive.com site. It has good search features and decent thread browse-ability. Thoughts? Tom

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Please add component "dll" to track
by Antony Polukhin 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Subj. Thanks! -- Best regards, Antony Polukhin

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compiling boost using C++11 atomics
by André Draszik 30 Aug '16

30 Aug '16

Hi, Is there any particular reason that boost isn't being compiled with BOOST_AC_USE_STD_ATOMIC and BOOST_SP_USE_STD_ATOMIC (by default) when C++11 support in g++ is available (g++ >= 4.7)? Thanks, Andre'

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[PropertyTree] Pull request removing usage of typeid()
by Chris Glover 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

Hi, In February, I submitted a pull request that removes the usage of typeid from property_tree and replaces it with boost.type_index. This allows me to use property_tree with rtti disabled, which I need sometimes. https://github.com/boostorg/property_tree/pull/20 I've had no feedback on the change. Can it be merged? Thanks, -- chris

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[graph] Dinic's algorithm and BGL
by Зайцев Александр 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

Hello. In the Boost Graph Library i can't find Dinic's algorithm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinic%27s_algorithm) I think there isn't implementation of this algo in the library. Why? Best regards, Alexander Zaitsev.

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[algorithm] Adding suffix automata, suffix array
by Зайцев Александр 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

Hello. I implemented Aho-Corasick to Boost.Algorithm. It's very useful algorithm, but i think that there are more useful algorithms, like suffix automata and suffix array. They can solve a lot of specific task on sequences of values: searching subsequences, count number of different subsequence, etc. Can i start work on it? ----- Best regards, Alexander Zaitsev.

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[Boost.Book] How to go full-bleed on documentation image headers?
by Vinnie Falco 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

On the Boost website, the image in documentation headers is full bleed (no white border). For example: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_61_0/doc/html/boost_asio.html How do I achieve this in my own documentation? I have set the image in the Jamfile, but I have no idea how to adjust the border: http://vinniefalco.github.io/beast/index.html The Jamfile and supporting source files are here: https://github.com/vinniefalco/Beast/tree/master/doc Thanks

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[predef] macro to detect OS version on Solaris
by Aparna Kumta 28 Aug '16

28 Aug '16

I looked at the predef documentation and see BOOST_OS_SOLARIS macro to detect the Solaris OS. Is there a way I can detect the Solaris version? Thanks, Aparna | | <http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_61_0/libs/predef/doc/html/predef/reference/…>

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[algorithm] Discuss about Aho-Corasick implementation
by Зайцев Александр 28 Aug '16

28 Aug '16

Hello. I implemented Aho-Corasick for Boost.Algorithm. I think that a lot of developers are interested in this and can look through my code and guess some suggestions. You are welcome: https://github.com/ZaMaZaN4iK/algorithm/blob/feature_branch/aho_corasik/inc… -- Best regards, Alexander Zaitsev

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[Root.Ptr] Review Schedule Listing Fix
by Phil Bouchard 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

Greetings, In the formal review schedule page: http://www.boost.org/community/review_schedule.html Is it possible for somebody to: - Change the name of the submission "Block Pointer" to "Root Pointer" - Point the source code to: https://github.com/philippeb8/root_ptr - Point the documentation to: http://philippeb8.github.io/root_ptr This way people will at least be able to read something about Root.Ptr! ;) Regards, -Phil

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[test] request to integrate a bugfix to master
by Raffi Enficiaud 26 Aug '16

26 Aug '16

Dear all, Please move boost.test to rev f68df446a4a5a3873e262364b56c5c2446216ae6 as it contains an important bug fix in case header only version of boost.test is used. Thanks and sorry for the noise, Raffi

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[test] All geometry regression tests failing in develop and master
by Rene Rivera 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

Tagging subject for visibility. But this obviously needs to get resolved ASAP.. On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:53 AM, Barend Gehrels <barend(a)xs4all.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > It seems that nearly all regression tests are failing for us in both > develop and master: > > http://www.boost.org/development/tests/master/developer/geometry.html > > With the messages like: > > disjoint.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol > "public: virtual void __cdecl boost::unit_test::output::juni > t_log_formatter::log_start( > class std::basic_ostream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> > &,unsigned > long)" > (?log_start@junit_log_formatter@output@unit_test@boost@@ > UEAAXAEAV?$basic_ostream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@K@Z) > > > We use Boost.Test (header-only), is there something changed there? Do we > need to change our Jam file? (of course we want to keep it header-only). > > The failures are new, before my one-week holiday it was still all OK. > > Regards, Barend -- -- Rene Rivera -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Robot Dreams - http://robot-dreams.net -- rrivera/acm.org (msn) - grafikrobot/aim,yahoo,skype,efnet,gmail

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]dynamic_bitset] develop change never merged to master
by Edward Diener 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

In going through the CMT libraries for the upcoming release I noticed a longstanding change to dynamic_bitset on the 'develop' branch that added capacity, reserve, and shrink_to_fit functionality which had never been merged to the 'master' branch. The change is purely to add functionality rather than a bug fix, but it has been tested successfully on the 'develop' branch for a long while now. Do we want this functionality in the upcoming release ? If not, this change can be merged to 'master' after the release is out for the next release.

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[release] Boost 1.62 now closed.
by Rene Rivera 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

Reminder.. The Boost 1.62 release, i.e. master branches, are now closed. Any change requires approval from a release manager. The release will reopen for bug fixes a week from now after the beta is posted. -- -- Rene Rivera -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Robot Dreams - http://robot-dreams.net -- rrivera/acm.org (msn) - grafikrobot/aim,yahoo,skype,efnet,gmail

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