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CMake Announcement from Boost Steering Committee
by Jon Kalb 13 Aug '24

13 Aug '24

The libraries produced by the Boost community have had a greater impact on the way that the C++ community writes code than any other library implementation. The focus of the Boost community will always be on the libraries, but it is undeniable that we are dependent on and often limited by the infrastructure of our trade. Years ago, the move to Git was contentious; yet, it was required to improve development. In a similar vein our build system has become an impediment for many developers and users, existing and prospective. Therefore, we, the Steering Committee, announce to the Boost community our desire and intent to move Boost’s build system to CMake for users and developers alike. We are soliciting comments and proposals from the community to guide the process and the goals. Our desire is that the community can come to consensus by the end of the calendar year with a vision of supporting users and developers. We understand that the actual process of achieving the end goal will be long, time consuming, and not without its share of conflict. We also recognize that the Boost community is comprised of bright and passionate individuals that are eager to get involved and help get work done. The members of the Steering Committee have been encouraged by the discussions and activity surrounding CMake on the mailing lists over the years and know that many people have voiced visions. We hope that each of you rejoins the discussion to support this initiative and contributes to the common goal of improving Boost’s integration into the broader C++ ecosystem. For the Boost Steering Committee, Jon Kalb, Chair jonkalb(a)boost.org

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Boost.Text is looking for a (mini-)review manager
by Zach Laine 07 Dec '22

07 Dec '22

I've made all the recommended changes to Boost.Text that came up in the review. Glen, the previous review manager, recommended a mini review of Boost.Text once I'd made those changes. If you'd like to manage the mini-review, please let me know. For everyone, including potential reviewers and review managers, here are the major changes: * All the specific review feedback issues have been addressed. * The string layer is now gone. * The text layer got a major re-work. It is now a set of template-based adaptors (basic_text<>, vs. a text typedef. etc.), which lets everyone get what they want. You can change the underlying storage type (including whatever allocator you prefer), select UTF-8 or UTF-16, and change the normalization form. Glen recommended I drop this layer, but the library is way less useful without this stuff, and these changes address all the concerns raised about the text layer in the review. The updated docs can be found here: https://tzlaine.github.io/text/doc/html/index.html Oh yeah, and I added concept constraints to the whole library when you build in C++20 mode. Zach

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[review][JSON] Review of JSON starts today: Sept 14 - Sept 23
by Pranam Lashkari 09 Aug '22

09 Aug '22

Boost formal review of Vinnie Falco and Krystian Stasiowski's library JSON starts today and will run for 10 days ending on 23 Sept 2020. Both of these authors have already developed a couple of libraries which are accepted in Boost(boost beast and Static String) This library focuses on a common and popular use-case for JSON. It provides a container to hold parsed and serialised JSON types. It provides more flexibility and better benchmark performance than its competitors. JSON highlights the following features in the documentation: - Fast compilation - Require only C++11 - Fast streaming parser and serializer - Easy and safe API with allocator support - Constant-time key lookup for objects - Options to allow non-standard JSON - Compile without Boost, define BOOST_JSON_STANDALONE - Optional header-only, without linking to a library (a point I would like to add in highlight: it has cool Jason logo 😝) To quickly understand and get the flavour of the library take a look at "Quick Look" <http://master.json.cpp.al/json/usage/quick_look.html> You can find the source code to be reviewed here: <https://github.com/CPPAlliance/json/tree/master> You can find the latest documentation here: <http://master.json.cpp.al/> Benchmarks are also given in the document which can be found here: <http://master.json.cpp.al/json/benchmarks.html> Some people have also given the early reviews, the thread can be found here: <https://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2020/09/249745.php> Please provide in your review information you think is valuable to understand your choice to ACCEPT or REJECT including JSON as a Boost library. Please be explicit about your decision (ACCEPT or REJECT). Some other questions you might want to consider answering: - 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 which compiler(s)? 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? More information about the Boost Formal Review Process can be found here: <http://www.boost.org/community/reviews.html> Thank you for your effort in the Boost community. -- Thank you, Pranam Lashkari, https://lpranam.github.io/

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[container] Contributing 'stationary_vector' to Boost
by Mehrdad Niknami 13 Jun '22

13 Jun '22

Hi all, Happy new year! New mailing list member here. I've developed an STL-style stationary_vector class that retains elements in-place when growing. Very briefly, it is effectively a piecewise-contiguous vector, with the following advantages over vector: - Appending has O(1) overhead in the *worst* case (e.g., push_back() does not move elements) - Insertion and random-access can be done in parallel, as prior iterators & references remain valid This has a variety of benefits, including better UX (no "hiccups" due to reallocations), and the ability to simplify parallel processing of streaming data. It occurred to me the larger C++ community might find this useful. I was wondering if there would be interest in incorporating it into Boost.Container, and if so, what steps I could take to make that happen? I'm of course happy to discuss the design etc. with anyone who might be interested. Summary: https://github.com/mehrdadn/libvital/blob/master/doc/vital/container/statio… Implementation: https://github.com/mehrdadn/libvital/blob/master/include/vital/container/st… Thank you, Mehrdad

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Adding my sorting algorithm, ska_sort, to boost, attempt 2
by Malte Skarupke 24 Nov '21

24 Nov '21

Hi everyone, I started a discussion about this in October, but at the time the maintainer of the sort library was busy, then I was busy, so now it's January... I wrote a generalized version of radix sort a couple years ago and gave a talk about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqs87a_7zxw I would like to get a new version of that sorting algorithm into boost. It's faster than what I showed several years ago. It's also even more general and has a new interface that should be easier to extend. I uploaded the code here: https://github.com/skarupke/sort/tree/master The documentation is also already updated with new benchmark results. Let me know what's required to get this into boost. Would you like this in the form of a pull request? One of the big things that probably needs review is the interface, since radix sorting works differently than comparison based sorting. For most normal uses you just need to provide a sort key, but more complicated cases can get more complicated. I tried very hard to make everything easy, but I'd also be curious if others can come up with better ways of doing the interface. Thanks, Malte -- Malte Skarupke malteskarupke(a)fastmail.fm

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wrong result in complex pow
by Gero Peterhoff 03 May '21

03 May '21

Hello, the pow-function pow(scalar, complex) in boost/math/cstdfloat/cstdfloat_complex_std.hpp get wrong result. Current implementation: inline complex<BOOST_CSTDFLOAT_EXTENDED_COMPLEX_FLOAT_TYPE> pow(const BOOST_CSTDFLOAT_EXTENDED_COMPLEX_FLOAT_TYPE& x, const complex<BOOST_CSTDFLOAT_EXTENDED_COMPLEX_FLOAT_TYPE>& a) { return std::exp(a * std::log(x)); } I think that's correct: inline complex<BOOST_CSTDFLOAT_EXTENDED_COMPLEX_FLOAT_TYPE> pow(const BOOST_CSTDFLOAT_EXTENDED_COMPLEX_FLOAT_TYPE& x, const complex<BOOST_CSTDFLOAT_EXTENDED_COMPLEX_FLOAT_TYPE>& a) { return std::exp(a * std::log(complex<BOOST_CSTDFLOAT_EXTENDED_COMPLEX_FLOAT_TYPE>(x))); } regards Gero

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The descriptor does not fit into the select call's fd_set
by George Nistor 10 Apr '21

10 Apr '21

Hi all, I am having a problem with the following error message '' The descriptor does not fit into the select call's fd_set" The setup I have is QNX , VSomeIP lib (socket abstractisation lib) , lib Boost 1.61 (a very old version) I get the error in this lib VSomeIp from the bellow boost call. The call to boost::asio::async_write(3 params) gives the above error message. I have tried to see also on QNX with > pidin -p vsomeip fds How many open file descriptor do I have and I got value 123. As far as I know there is a limitation 1024 of open file descriptors. Could you provide some help? Does the latest boost lib solve this particular case? I appreciate any suggestion, Also please say if any info is missing Thanks George Nistor

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[Boost] [Lambda2] Review starts Monday March 22, 2021 to March 31, 2021
by Joel de Guzman 08 Apr '21

08 Apr '21

The Boost formal review of the Lambda2, authored by Peter Dimov, starts Monday, March 22, 2021 to March 31, 2021 (inclusive). Documentation: https://pdimov.github.io/lambda2/doc/html/lambda2.html Source: https://github.com/pdimov/lambda2/ Lambda2 is a simple, but functional, C++14 lambda library. It takes advantage of the fact that the standard <functional> header already provides placeholders _1, _2, _3, and so on, for use with std::bind, and function objects such as std::plus, std::greater, std::logical_not, and std::bit_xor, corresponding to arithmetic, relational, logical and bitwise operators. Please provide in your review information you think is valuable to understand your choice to ACCEPT or REJECT including Lambda2 as a Boost library. Please be explicit about your decision (ACCEPT or REJECT). Some other questions you might want to consider answering: - 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 which compiler(s)? 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? More information about the Boost Formal Review Process can be found at: http://www.boost.org/community/reviews.html The review is open to anyone who is prepared to put in the work of evaluating and reviewing the library. Prior experience in contributing to Boost reviews is not a requirement. Thank you for your efforts in the Boost community. They are very much appreciated. Peter is often available in the CppLang Slack #boost channel should you require any clarification not covered by the documentation. I am not frequently available in the Slack channel, but I'll certainly pay attention to the discussions. Please don't hesitate to ping me if needed. Cheers, --Joel de Guzman

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FFT proposal for gsoc 2021
by Eduardo Quintana 08 Apr '21

08 Apr '21

Hi Boost community, I've been working on a C++ templated library for Fast Fourier Transforms, https://github.com/Lagrang3/fftx. Templated because some FFT algorithms are algebraic-field independent, eg. you could FFT an array of N matrices provided a Nth matrix-root-of-unity is given. As a result you could have a single algorithm for a variety of underlying, eg. `std::complex<float>`, `std::complex<double>`, `std::complex<long double>`, `boost::math::quaternion`, finite field types (this would yield the "Number theoretic transform" https://cp-algorithms.com/algebra/fft.html#toc-tgt-6) I would like to improve this library during the GSOC 2021, as a proposal for inclusion inside Boost.Math or Boost.Algorithms. Is there anyone interested in supervising this project? Any opinions? Best regards, Eduardo Quintana

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[release] 1.76.0 post-beta merges
by Marshall Clow 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

The master branch is is now open for post-beta merges, but only as described in the Post-Beta Merge Policy. See <https://github.com/boostorg/boost/wiki/Releases%3A-Beta-Merge-Policy> Reminder: The master branch closes for the release on Wednesday, Apr 7. Full calendar here: https://www.boost.org/development/ <https://www.boost.org/development/> — Marshall P.S Doc changes and test changes do NOT require release manager approval to be merged.

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