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Report from Mont Tremblant C++ Committee meeting
by Beman Dawes 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

The C++ Standards Committee met this past week in Mont Tremblant, Quebec, Canada. Many Boosters were present, and Boost continues to get praise and encouragement from non-Boost committee members. The Library Working Group (LWG) is starting serious work on TR2. Initial proposals for several Boost libraries were evaluated: Filesystem : Interested? Yes 17, No 0 Date-Time : Interested? Yes 9, No 0 Range : Want a C++03 version aimed at TR2, but still interested in a version based on new language features (Concepts perhaps?). String-algo : Interested, but concern over interface and choice of functions, generic vs basic_string.5.3 separate proposal numeric_cast<> : Interested? Yes 10, No 0 Interval : Interested? Yes 7, No 4. Concerns about sufficiently large user base to justify standardizing. Optional : Interested? Strong yes 9, weak yes 2, weak no 3, strong no 0 Significant concerns about the interface: Pointer interface. Two ways of doing the same thing. Depends on nullptr - is there a backup plan. Dubious of use of references. "Boost style" Threads : Pursue? Strong yes 9, weak yes 5, weak no 0, strong no 1 Also: minmax and / or algorithm std::minmax_element In favor 13, Not in favor 0 TR2 0 2 1 0 C++0X 1 8 0 0 Kevlin Henney Threads : Ask for fleshed-out proposal? Strong yes 3, weak yes 6, weak no 2, strong no 1 The next C++ Committee meeting will be in Berlin, Germany, the first week of April 2006. The meeting after that will be in Portland, Oregon, US, in October 2006. --Beman

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Boost regression notification (2005-11-06 [RC_1_33_0])
by Douglas Gregor 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Boost regression test failures ------------------------------ Report time: 2005-11-06T15:15:08Z This report lists all regression test failures on release platforms. Detailed report: http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/CVS-RC_1_33_0/developer/i… 2 failures in 2 libraries: python (1) serialization (1) |python| map_indexing_suite: vc-8_0 |serialization| test_non_default_ctor_binary_archive: vc-8_0

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Boost regression notification (2005-11-06 [HEAD])
by Douglas Gregor 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Boost regression test failures ------------------------------ Report time: 2005-11-06T06:00:29Z This report lists all regression test failures on release platforms. WARNING: The following libraries have failing regression tests but do not have a maintainer on file. Once a maintainer is found, add an entry to libs/maintainers.txt to eliminate this message. io Detailed report: http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/CVS-HEAD/developer/issues… 245 failures in 13 libraries: bind (1) concept_check (11) graph (2) io (1) mpl (1) serialization (30) spirit (8) thread (4) tr1 (105) tuple (1) type_traits (58) typeof (18) xpressive (5) |bind| bind_dm3_test: intel-win32-9_0 |concept_check| stl_concept_covering: cw-9_4 gcc-2.95.3-linux gcc-2.95.3-stlport-4.6.2-linux gcc-3.3.6-linux gcc-3.4.4-linux gcc-3_3-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos gcc-4_0-darwin intel-win32-9_0 intel-win32-9_0 vc-7_1 |graph| graphviz_test: vc-7_1 layout_test: intel-win32-9_0 |io| ios_state_unit_test: intel-win32-9_0 |mpl| size_t: gcc-4_0-darwin |serialization| test_class_info_load_binary_archive: gcc-3_3-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos gcc-4_0-darwin test_class_info_load_binary_archive_dll: gcc-3_3-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos gcc-4_0-darwin test_class_info_load_text_archive: gcc-3_3-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos gcc-4_0-darwin test_class_info_load_text_archive_dll: gcc-3_3-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos gcc-4_0-darwin test_class_info_load_text_warchive: gcc-3_3-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos gcc-4_0-darwin test_class_info_load_text_warchive_dll: gcc-3_3-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos gcc-4_0-darwin test_class_info_load_xml_archive: gcc-3_3-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos gcc-4_0-darwin test_class_info_load_xml_archive_dll: gcc-3_3-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos gcc-4_0-darwin test_class_info_load_xml_warchive: gcc-3_3-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos gcc-4_0-darwin test_class_info_load_xml_warchive_dll: gcc-3_3-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos gcc-4_0-darwin |spirit| action_tests_debug: gcc-3_4_3-sunos distinct_tests_debug: gcc-3_4_3-sunos escape_char_parser_tests_debug: gcc-3_4_3-sunos grammar_def_test_debug: gcc-3_4_3-sunos switch_problem_debug: gcc-3_4_3-sunos switch_tests_single_debug: gcc-3_4_3-sunos traverse_tests: intel-win32-9_0 traverse_tests_debug: intel-win32-9_0 |thread| test_condition: gcc-3_4_3-sunos test_mutex: 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Re: [boost] Gender neutral documentation
by brangdon＠cix.compulink.co.uk 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

In-Reply-To: <E562FCEE3A42D61192880002A5FB433302D7B0ED(a)kite.pigroup.co.uk> martin.bonner(a)pitechnology.com (Martin Bonner) wrote (abridged): > As used by the British royal family, "one" is a first person singular > pronoun. It's also worth considering "you", as second person singular (or plural): This means for example that you can completely discard Bind if you do not need it. Whether "you" works in this situation depends on whether the context makes it clear that "you", the reader of the documentation, is the tool's user rather than the tool's author. Personally I don't have a problem with "she". It only seems strange because it is unusual. If we use it more it won't be so unusual. -- Dave Harris, Nottingham, UK.

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Boost's position/work on a Standard GUI Library for C++0x
by David Wehite 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

In his article "The Design of C++0x", published in C/C++ Users Journal, May 2005, the author of C++ Bjarne Stroustrup wrote, "The most commonly requested new feature for C++ is a standard GUI". I am new to Boost and will appreciate if some folks here would give me a summary of Boost organization's standing on such a standard GUI library. If and how was it addressed and pointers to work on the subject if such has been done. I just want to clarify, that when I say "standard", I mean that as long as my application source code adheres to that standard, if I take it and walk into any machine that has a C++ compiler (at least one that deserves that title), compilation would at least not fail for syntax reasons, w/o me changing a single character in the source (not even changing the case of a character), no matter how complex and/or large that source is. I don't know how to avoid a sea of answers with this mailing list arrangement (not that I think that my 2.6GB gmail box would soon fill up...), may be the few answers can be posted on the newsgroup forum? Thanks in advance for the education, David

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[PREPROCESSOR]:New sequence handler
by Alex Mekhed 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Hello, sorry if I will be wrong, I am new to boost. As far as I know, BOOST_PP_SEQ_FOR_EACH_I works only with 256 elements, well, I've wrote macro that works with unlimited (256, 512, well it may be limited by some compilers options, like string length, maybe) number of elements (while testing I'vnt met bugs...). But if You're interested in, I can email the code (here?). P.S.: Also, there is some difference: #define ENUM_SWITCH_CASE(x) case x: return #x; #define ENUMR(x) x, #define ENUM(E, x) \ enum E { NEWL(ENUMR,x) }; \ inline const char *to_string(day_t e)\ {\ switch(e)\ {\ NEWL(ENUM_SWITCH_CASE, x)\ };\ }; #define ENUMRSEQQ1_END #define ENUM_SWITCH_CASESEQQ1_END #define ENUM_SWITCH_CASE_ENDET default: return "<invalid>"; ENUM(day_t,(Monday)(Tuesday)(Wednesday)(Thursday)(Friday)(Saturday)(Sunday)) There is 3 defines in the end, NEWL (my macro) - make's the code with 2 constants in the end ( (a)(b)(c) -> a,b,c, C1 C2 ), so first define eliminates one unneeded constant (one will be used for enum ending), second and third defines does almost the same, but ENDET used for making default case in switch. P.P.S: And another difference is that name of one of the constants in the end variyng from the number of the elements in sequence. (Maybe one of the constants can be removed...)

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Boost regression notification (2005-11-05 [RC_1_33_0])
by Douglas Gregor 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Boost regression test failures ------------------------------ Report time: 2005-11-05T14:58:07Z This report lists all regression test failures on release platforms. Detailed report: http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/CVS-RC_1_33_0/developer/i… 0 failure in 0 library:

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Boost regression notification (2005-11-05 [HEAD])
by Douglas Gregor 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Boost regression test failures ------------------------------ Report time: 2005-11-05T06:00:35Z This report lists all regression test failures on release platforms. WARNING: The following libraries have failing regression tests but do not have a maintainer on file. Once a maintainer is found, add an entry to libs/maintainers.txt to eliminate this message. io Detailed report: http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/CVS-HEAD/developer/issues… 287 failures in 13 libraries: bind (1) concept_check (11) graph (2) io (1) mpl (1) serialization (30) spirit (8) thread (4) tr1 (147) tuple (1) type_traits (58) typeof (18) xpressive (5) |bind| bind_dm3_test: intel-win32-9_0 |concept_check| stl_concept_covering: cw-9_4 gcc-2.95.3-linux gcc-2.95.3-stlport-4.6.2-linux gcc-3.3.6-linux gcc-3.4.4-linux gcc-3_3-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos gcc-4_0-darwin intel-win32-9_0 intel-win32-9_0 vc-7_1 |graph| graphviz_test: vc-7_1 layout_test: intel-win32-9_0 |io| ios_state_unit_test: intel-win32-9_0 |mpl| size_t: gcc-4_0-darwin |serialization| test_class_info_load_binary_archive: gcc-3_3-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos gcc-4_0-darwin test_class_info_load_binary_archive_dll: gcc-3_3-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos gcc-4_0-darwin test_class_info_load_text_archive: gcc-3_3-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos gcc-4_0-darwin test_class_info_load_text_archive_dll: gcc-3_3-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos gcc-4_0-darwin test_class_info_load_text_warchive: gcc-3_3-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos gcc-4_0-darwin test_class_info_load_text_warchive_dll: gcc-3_3-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos gcc-4_0-darwin test_class_info_load_xml_archive: gcc-3_3-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos gcc-4_0-darwin test_class_info_load_xml_archive_dll: gcc-3_3-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos gcc-4_0-darwin test_class_info_load_xml_warchive: gcc-3_3-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos gcc-4_0-darwin test_class_info_load_xml_warchive_dll: gcc-3_3-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos gcc-4_0-darwin |spirit| action_tests_debug: gcc-3_4_3-sunos distinct_tests_debug: gcc-3_4_3-sunos escape_char_parser_tests_debug: gcc-3_4_3-sunos grammar_def_test_debug: gcc-3_4_3-sunos switch_problem_debug: gcc-3_4_3-sunos switch_tests_single_debug: gcc-3_4_3-sunos traverse_tests: intel-win32-9_0 traverse_tests_debug: intel-win32-9_0 |thread| test_condition: gcc-3_4_3-sunos test_mutex: 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autoconf-like configure on RC_1_33_0 branch
by Doug Gregor 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

I've placed an autoconf-like "configure" script on the RC_1_33_0 branch. If you're a *nix user and would like an alternative to directly using bjam, give it a try and send me some bug reports :) Typically one would just use: ./configure --prefix=/where/to/install make make install Run "./configure --help" for more options. Cheers, Doug

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Documentation Wizard
by Rob Stewart 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Quite some time ago, Dave Abrahams announced that I was the new Boost Documentation Wizard. I said I'd write something on the subject and that is long overdue. Herewith, I describe what I think the DocWiz should do and what is needed from volunteers to make it happen. That is, I'm trying to document the new DocWiz role and solicit your help. Please have a look and comment on what I'm proposing. If you don't like the direction I'm planning, say so. If you think I've missed something, let me know. If you think you can help in some way, please let me know; I can't do the job alone. The DocWiz's purpose is to try to foster better documentation for Boost. Since this is something new at Boost, some measures will be grandfathered* of necessity, while others will likely be retrofitted to existing documentation. Some things will be purely stylistic, but most will be substantive. A significant problem with writing library documentation is that English is often not the library author's primary language.* It is all too common that those who can write C++ fluently cannot write English well. Thus, we need a means to ensure that the library author's ideas are well communicated. Another problem with writing library documentation is knowing what to write. How much detail is sufficient? How many code examples should there be? How much material should be relegated to a reference section and how much should be presented in a tutorial? What is a sufficient rationale for the library? Many of these issues can be addressed by seeking insight from what has been written well already and by seeking advice from those expert on the tasks. From that information we can capture best practices to assist new documentation authors. Still another problem is consistency. As Boost grows, having a reasonably consistent look and feel to our documentation becomes increasingly important. Naming and organizing sections in our documentation must be consistent across libraries to simplify locating desired information in each library. Given the rate at which new libraries are proposed, I cannot do this task alone. I'm the father of eight (yes, 8!) children (so far, at least), I have a full time job, etc. Like everyone else, I'm quite busy. Thus, I need help. I intend to be the manager of a group of folks who can divide the workload to make it manageable. To that end, I propose the following positions to assist in improving the state of Boost documentation: Editors - Folks with demonstrably good English skills who can assist library authors by clarifying and correcting the documentation at various times, as determined by the author, so the meaning is clear. Editors also advice the author on structural changes necessary to conform to Boost guidelines. Editors are not so much concerned with content as with clear communication of what is included. Domain Experts*** - Folks with special skills in writing certain types of documentation such as concepts or tutorials; when a library author is struggling to write a portion of the library's documentation, the author can call upon the appropriate domain expert for assistance. Mentors - Folks with skills and desire to write good documentation who can come alongside a new library author to ghost write, share writing tasks, suggest content, etc. The output from author/mentor collaboration must still be approved by an editor. The workload of an editor will be varied since the number of authors writing documentation varies and based upon their update schedules. The workload of a domain expert should be quite low as folks writing concept descriptions, for example, should not need a domain expert's input often or long. The workload of a mentor likely will be as high as the mentor wishes. Initially, anyone acting as an editor will need to prove his/her skills by relying on trusted editors to proof the results. Once proven, a new editor can act autonomously. The expected result of this group of folks is documentation that is acceptable to Boost. I propose that a library cannot be fully accepted by Boost without the DocWiz's approval. IOW, a library can be conditionally accepted pending documentation approval. (That approval may be given based solely upon the word of a trusted editor; the DocWiz needn't read every document to give approval, but the responsibility does lie with the DocWiz for deficient approved documentation.) Note that the DocWiz is not the final authority on what is acceptable documentation. Users of that documentation are. An author will likely need to update documentation based upon user experience. Such changes should be subject to an editorial review, too, in order to maintain high standards. -------- * That means that existing documentation needn't be changed to conform to new policies, but may be if the author chooses. ** Another problem is that English *is* the library author's primary language. :) *** The name "domain expert" smacks too much of someone who is expert in the domain of the library rather than of a particular aspect of library documentation. Please suggest a better name. -- Rob Stewart stewart(a)sig.com Software Engineer http://www.sig.com Susquehanna International Group, LLP using std::disclaimer;

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