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[1.44] PDF build of documentation is now available
by John Maddock 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

The PDF build of the documentation for Boost-1.44 is now available for download from https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/ The direct links are: https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-docs/1.44.0/boost_1_44_p… https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-docs/1.44.0/boost_1_44_p… https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-docs/1.44.0/boost_1_44_p… https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-docs/1.44.0/boost_1_44_p… As usual please note that this only includes the subset of Boost documentation that is authored in quickbook/boostbook/docbook and so has an automatic conversion to PDF format. Enjoy! Regards, John.

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I want to submit a patch
by Grizzly(Francis Smit) 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hello I would like to submit some changes to boost i.e. I have implemented an extension to boost to support extra conversion chars like %B for printing bool's symbolically i.e. switching on boolalpha, and %b to print out a integer type in binary (base 2) and %b(base) to print out and integer in base "base" 2<= base <= 36 and the uppercase flag controlling whether or not we use 'A' to 'Z' or 'a' to 'z' for digits above 9 Also I have implemented a printf, fprintf etc that uses C++0x's vardic template parameters to type safely print, this uses boostformat as the format string anyway I would like to submit this stuff to boost for hopefully inclusion in the boost libraries how do I go about that I cannot find it on the web page -- In my life God comes first.... but Linux is pretty high after that :-D Grizzly(Francis Smit) http://www.google.com/profiles/grizzlysmit

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[Boost][website] SSL certificate
by admin＠thefireflyproject.us 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

I recently switched from Firefox to Chromium, and I've been having issues accessing [1]https://svn.boost.org. It seems that the SSL certificate used for [2]svn.boost.org is either not properly configured, or not issued by one of the major SSL certificate providers (e.g. VeriSign, GoDaddy). Examination of the certificate indicates that it's issued by the Computer Science Department of Indiana University, and the certificate doesn't have a chain that leads back to a well known CA (the chain is just '[3]svn.boost.org => [4]cs.indiana.edu', and most browsers I've tried don't recognize [5]cs.indiana.edu as a legitimate CA by default). If this isn't just a matter of improper configuration (or, for that matter, just a matter of my browsers being screwy), I'd be happy to offer my own SSL certificate to Boost. The certificate is a standard SSL certificate issued by GoDaddy (domain controlled validation, certificate signing algorithm is RSA 2048 bits), and it's paid through 02/20/2011. I'm currently using my cert for my Debian mirror, so I would have to revoke the current certificate, and then submit a CSR from [6]boost.org's server. Ideally, then I would generate a CSR request, and the boost server would sign it; I'd end up with a cert chain of 'mysite => [7]boost.org => GoDaddy'. [8]boost.org and subdomains would have a cert signed directly by GoDaddy, so the [9]svn.boost.org cert would be verify by most browsers automatically. If there's any interest in this, please let me know. - Bryce Lelbach References 1. https://svn.boost.org/ 2. http://svn.boost.org/ 3. http://svn.boost.org/ 4. http://cs.indiana.edu/ 5. http://cs.indiana.edu/ 6. http://boost.org/ 7. http://boost.org/ 8. http://boost.org/ 9. http://svn.boost.org/

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[1.45] release branch open for merges
by Eric Niebler 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Now that 1.44 is tagged and bagged, the release branch is open once again for (well-tested!) merges from trunk. Let me use this as an opportunity to remind folks that the release process works best when merges from trunk are done continuously instead of in a mad rush at the end just before freeze. Thanks for listening! -- Eric Niebler BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com

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[website] Moving guidelines back to main site
by Daniel James 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Hi, I'm no longer working on transferring pages to the wiki. It's a bit silly having a few pages on there, and possibly adds to the performance problems on trac, so I'm moving the pages back to the main site. Daniel

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[1.44.0] Release 1.44.0 is now available
by Beman Dawes 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Release 1.44.0 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 two new libraies (Meta State Machine & Polygon) and numerous enhancements and bug fixes for existing libraries. For details, including download links, see http://www.boost.org/users/download/version_1_44_0 The release can also be downloaded directly from SourceForge. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/ To install this release on your system, see http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/more/getting_started/index.html Thanks, --The Boost release team Beman Dawes Daniel James Eric Niebler Rene Rivera Vladimir Prus

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boost_1_44_0 strange build problem
by Neal Becker 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

I thought build was working OK on fedora f13 x86_64. But then I noticed something strange: I'm building like this: bjam -sHAVE_ICU=1 -sEXPAT_INCLUDE=/usr -sEXPAT_LIBPATH=/usr/lib64 -- layout=tagged threading=single,multi stage Running 1st time, I got no errors....updated 1353 targets... But then I reran in the same directory and got: ...patience... ...patience... ...patience... ...found 7771 targets... ...updating 96 targets... [ rebuilt release/link-static/libboost_math_c99f.a and release/link- static/libboost_math_c99.a ] ...updated 96 targets... Trying a 3rd time, nothing happens.

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[Boost]boost_1_32_00 solaris /1.32.0/include/boost/iterator/iterator_facade.hpp"
by pradheep shrinivasan 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Hi i am using boost 1.32 on the sun solaris. Machine: *SunOS etbf27 5.9 Generic_122300-13 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440* Compiler: *CC: Sun C++ 5.8 2005/10/13* And i am getting the following error when i use the tokenizer <> Error : "*/usr/include/boost/iterator/iterator_facade.hpp", line 837: Error: Could not find a match for boost::iterator_core_access::equal*" I googled and found out that its a bug in the boost 1_32_00 version of boost but could not find anything concrete except to upgrade to the next version. I cannot upgrade because 1_32 is already used in many parts of project and i have to go through a long chain of approval. Can you please provide me links to the workaround if there is one available. P.S : Its my first post ... Feel free to point out the mistakes i made in posting and i would be happy to correct them. Thanking you -- Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning. – Rich Cook. J ------- regards Pradheep

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[preprocessor] check if a token is a keyword (was "BOOST_PP_IS_UNARY()")
by Lorenzo Caminiti 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Hello all, I asked this question before but received no answer: Is there any problem in using `BOOST_PP_UNARY()` to check if a token matches a predefined keyword as indicated by the code below? The following `IS_PUBLIC(token)` macro expands to 1 if `token` is `public`, to 0 otherwise: #define PUBLIC_public (1) #define IS_PUBLIC(token) BOOST_PP_IS_UNARY(BOOST_PP_CAT(PUBLIC_, token)) IS_PUBLIC(public) // Expand to 1. IS_PUBLIC(abc) // Expand to 0. This works just fine on both GCC and MSVC. However, `BOOST_PP_UNARY()` is only part of Boost.Preprocessor private API because: Paul Mensonides mentioned in http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2004/08/70238.php > Paul Mensonides wrote: > I know. They (and other types of detection macros) are very useful. Right now, > the Borland configuration is used by the IBM preprocessor and the Sun > preprocessor also. I'd like to know whether or not those macro definitions work > correctly on those preprocessors before I add it. Though those macros aren't > part of the public interface, they are part of the internal interface. I.e. > they are used internally as if they were a public interface (though they are > used carefully on some preprocessors). They are stable, and the worst thing > that might happen in the future is that they will be moved to a different > directory. Thus, you can use them, but beware of VC and versions of MWCW prior > to v9. They in particular have severe problems with expansion order. E.g. VC > will even fail this test: (Boost.Preprocessor, Boost.Typeof, and Boost.Spirit already use `BOOST_PP_UNARY()` internally.) Thank you very much. -- Lorenzo

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[DateTime] Converting ptime to real POSIX Time
by Artyom 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Hello, I want to provide some integration between boost::posix_time::ptime and boost::locale::date_time - make transparent conversion between two. I have following point I either miss in ptime design or it has design flaws: 1. POSIX Time (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time) is always considered Time in seconds from 1970-JAN-1 00:00:00 UTC not including leap seconds. However ptime can be constructed from "local_time" which is totally contradicts a well known definition of POSIX time. 2. I can't find any way to convert it to "number" POSIX time. I can convert it to time_t and from time_t but if I need a better accuracy -milli-seconds, nano-seconds etc. it seems to be impossible according to docs. How can I convert it to more accurate representation? Is there any way to get a notice about how ptime was created, with universal time scale or local time scale, also I there a way to get UTC POSIX time from ptime even if it was created from local time. Artyom

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