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Download links all broken?
by John Maddock 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

All the download links from www.boost.org appear to be currently broken - which is to say no one can download Boost right now. Ideas or fixes anyone? Thanks, John. -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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[test][program_options] Avoid deprecated bind placeholders in global namespace
by Mateusz Loskot 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Hi, I have a shy request to maintainers of boostorg/test and boostorg/program_options Would it be possible to merge these trivial patch to both: https://github.com/boostorg/test/pull/259 https://github.com/boostorg/program_options/pull/92 Thanks in advance. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net

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Proposal Review
by Kishan shukla 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Hello everyone, I have prepared the draft proposal for the boost.Real project. It involves adding new mathematical functions and operators into the library. I have also planned on optimizing a few algorithms and addressing previously unresolved issues. The proposal is the result of my discussion with my mentor Damian Vicino. Sorry for being late. Please review the proposal and provide your valuable feedback. Proposal link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oXAaaiqgtC2bTCfADPwXUY4ItYw-C8EMOLr2Bhu… Regards, Kishan Shukla

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GSoC 2020
by Sachin Saw 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Dear Developers, I am Sachin, a third year undergraduate student at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, I have been using C++ for around three years and have a good experience in it. I like to contribute to boost on Boost.Geometry during GSoC’20. I went through https://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/page/jise/2012/201205_10.pdf and found a great explanation of algorithm during GSoC period I would like to work on above algorithm (in the link) and concave hull using k-nearest neighbours approach so that one would act as a test for other. If would love to have suggestion from you Thanks,

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[gsoc20] Proposal review for Boost.Real
by Vikram Chundawat 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Hello everyone, I have prepared my draft proposal for Boost.Real project on improving the base, adding new number types and adding a method to calculate powers. Here is the link to the proposal https://docs.google.com/document/d/10Hy87Ok7UTzqPvzD35BkrlL-Sx4G8HfSCzchwYa… I have been in touch with this project's potential mentor Damian Vicino and this proposal is the result of my discussion with him. Please kindly provide your valuable feedback on the proposal. Thank you Regards Vikram Singh Chundawat

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[gsoc20]Proposal for general robust predicates for Boost.Geometry
by Tinko Bartels 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

Hello Boost-Community, I have prepared a draft proposal for general robust predicates for Boost.Geometry. The ideas are described in more detail in the proposal, but I will briefly describe them here: A number of geometric algorithms, such as the triangulation of a point set, employ geometric predicates (implemented as strategies in Boost.Geometry). One example for such a predicate is the 2d orientation test, which, given three points p1, p2, p3, determines whether p3 lies on the left or right side of the line segment that goes through p1 and p2. Using floating-point arithmetics to answer that question can lead to incorrect and ultimately inconsistent results that may cause the algorithm that employs the predicate to produce nonsensical results or crash entirely for certain inputs. Using algorithms for exact floating-point arithmetics combined with some considerations regarding forward error analysis, a complicated method can be implemented that evaluates such predicates robustly and only adaptively increases the precision if necessary to avoid expensive high precision computations whenever possible. I propose a general, automated approach that generates such robust, adaptive predicates from arbitrary arithmetic expressions. Currently, Boost.Geometry has robust adaptive predicates for the 2d orientation and the 2d incircle test. This work would enable us to easily extend this to 3d orientation, 3d insphere, and generally all predicates that can be evaluated by determining the sign of a polynomial. I want to present my proposal for review publicly now: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19zH9QuSSNWAHm1DP5poxbRxcMXlzRVWfL5Wslbe… Kind regards Tinko Bartels -- Sent from: http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/Boost-Dev-f2600599.html

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[cmake][array][vs] Trying develop and test a single library
by Mateusz Loskot 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

Hi, I'm learning about the boostorg/cmake infrastructure offered by Peter. I picked Boost.Array as a library with simple build setup. I replaced the existing (hand-rolled?) CMakeLists.txt files with the generated ones: b2 tools\boostdep\build dist\bin\boostdep.exe --cmake array Then, learning form boostorg/cmake itself how to use it https://github.com/boostorg/cmake/blob/develop/.travis.yml#L228 cd BOOST_ROOT mkdir __build__ && cd __build__ cmake -DBOOST_ENABLE_CMAKE=1 -DBoost_VERBOSE=ON -DBOOST_INCLUDE_LIBRARIES=array .. cmake --build . ctest --output-on-failure -R boost_array Visual Studio solution is nicely generated, all expected .vcxproj files too, but, AFAICT, neither the last two commands nor these do anything: cmake --build . --config Release cmake --build . --config Debug I loaded the Boost.sln in VS 2019 and Build > Build Solution worked. I also noticed this 'unusual' project-as-target called check. I'm back in the CLI mode and run: cmake --build . --target check this time all the tests build and run. Interestingly, if I feed the ctest with the build configuration, then it also builds the tests, and runs them too, of course: ctest --output-on-failure -R boost_array -C Release ctest --output-on-failure -R boost_array -C Debug Is this `cmake --build .` doing nothing specific Boost.CMake? Is that `check` target supposed to be used explicitly? Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net

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FW: Request to review my GSoC proposal[Boost multiprecision]
by Kindly review GSOC Proposal [Boost multiprecision]: New Big-Double Backend Types 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

Sent from [1]Mail for Windows 10 From: [2]Kindly review GSOC Proposal [Boost multiprecision]: New Big-Double Backend Types Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 2:14 PM To: [3]boost(a)lists.boost.org Subject: Request to review my GSoC proposal[Boost multiprecision] Dear Sir/Ma'am, It would be great if you coul review my GSOC proposal for [Boost multiprecision]: New Big-Double Backend Types Doc link: [4]https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xznSxg1XcAiQMnVXSMG_NwxuUe GmkI5iXhabSXe_WuQ/edit?usp=sharing I deeply regret and apologize for the late submission, but I request you to review it once as it will surely help me to update it in required ways. With regards Suyash Srivastava IIT(ISM) Dhanbad Sent from [5]Mail for Windows 10 References 1. https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986 2. mailto:suyash.17je003210@cse.iitism.ac.in 3. mailto:boost@lists.boost.org 4. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xznSxg1XcAiQMnVXSMG_NwxuUeGmkI5iXhabSXe… 5. https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986

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feedback on litpton-tarjan separator
by Jeff Linahan 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

Hello BGL users, after 5 years I'm almost ready to start writing documentation for my lipton-tarjan planar separator algorithm and finally submit my first implementation for formal peer review for inclusion in BGL. But one last question I have is feedback on how people would like the public interface for how a function like this will work (especially the template part which I'm not as good at). The internals will be easier to change as I continue to develop the implementation. This is essentially what I have now: struct Partition { std::set<vertex_t> a, b, c; }; Partition lipton_tarjan_separator(boost::adjacency_list<boost::vecS, boost::vecS, boost::undirectedS, boost::property<boost::vertex_index_t, uint>, boost::property<boost::edge_index_t, uint>> const&); I'd like to make it more generic eventually, but is that good enough for inclusion in BGL as is? Full code here: https://github.com/jeffythedragonslayer/lipton-tarjan Thanks, Jeff

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Google Code Summer Challenge
by Calvin Green 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

Dear Boost C++, Hello, my name is Calvin Green Jr. I am a sophomore Computer Science major from Chicago, IL. I was emailing you to see if you can send me your guy's Google Challenge mentor's emails or assign me to one for the Summer challenge. Sincerely, Calvin Green

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