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[Release Process] composing the release
by Frank Birbacher 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

Hi! In this message I'm grounding my questions on the release process which we discussed ealier: development in the trunk and a release manager who will merge the changes into a release branch. When the libraries develop over time and some new features become release-ready they should me merged into the release branch. Now what happenes/should happen when a library X and a library Y both depend on library BASE and X includes a new feature which depends on a new version of BASE but library Y is using the old version of BASE? What should become of the release? Would the new features of X be rejected for release? Would we require lib Y to test against the new BASE? Proposal: For important/widely used "base" libraries we would use the release-ready version of the previous release. Meaning: at the same time when doing a release the lib BASE has some release-ready state (which is not necessarily part of the release). This state shall be "fixed" for use by other libraries when preparing for the *next* release. The BASE lib would be "one release behind", but every other library would have a common base to work with. Is this sensible? Frank

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Updated Development and Release Practices for 1.35.0
by Beman Dawes 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

The Development and Release Practices trac wiki page has been updated. See http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/ImprovingPractices The most important changes were refinements of the repository organization and addition of more specific procedures for merging from the trunk to the next release. The merging is described in terms of TortoiseSVN. It would be helpful if someone familiar with command line svn provided an equivalent set of instructions for command line users. I'm trying to restrict the process to things we can do right away, so we can get started on 1.35.0. Comments appreciated. --Beman

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Trac open tasks - by assignee
by Marshall Clow 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

[ 8 tasks ] If you are maintaining a library, and have not logged into the trac system at <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/>, please do so ASAP. Until you do that, no tickets can be assigned to you, and will remain under "None". Instructions on working with tickets can be found at: <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/TicketWorkflow> and a mapping of user names to "real names" can be found at: <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/report/16> 4 grafik 3 djowel 1 agurtovoy agurtovoy 1122 Update regression.py to use SVN repo. djowel 1174 Simplified template arg handling djowel 1175 What is punctuation? djowel 1200 Revamp the header information grafik 1040 boost.devel archive at ActiveState disconnected grafik 1088 Docs for template escape feature. grafik 93 Testing problems on AIX and OSF grafik 94 Better reporting of failed expectation. -- -- Marshall Marshall Clow Qualcomm, Inc. <mailto:mclow@qualcomm.com> The famous British scientist, Lord Kelvin, said: "When you measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it, but when you cannot (or do not) measure it, when you cannot (or do not) express it in numbers, then your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind."

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Trac open support requests - by assignee
by Marshall Clow 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

[ 27 open requests ] If you are maintaining a library, and have not logged into the trac system at <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/>, please do so ASAP. Until you do that, no tickets can be assigned to you, and will remain under "None". Instructions on working with tickets can be found at: <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/TicketWorkflow> and a mapping of user names to "real names" can be found at: <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/report/16> 4 grafik 3 jbandela 2 vladimir_prus 2 turkanis 2 rogeeff 2 jsiek 2 djowel 2 az_sw_dude 1 urzuga 1 shammah 1 johnmaddock 1 fcacciola 1 anthonyw 1 agurtovoy 1 None None 982 x64 documentation for windows agurtovoy 816 duplicat initial members -> erase_key postcond. fail anthonyw 1053 Error using boost::mutex and C++/CLI az_sw_dude 605 support new 2007 DST rules for timezone db az_sw_dude 614 new timezone db file for #1471723 - 2007 DST support djowel 1221 Section names may cause html names to be too long djowel 543 Embedded python won't compile fcacciola 282 boost::optional<enum> fails with /CLR grafik 481 Linker Problems with VC .NET 2003 / STLPort / Boost grafik 497 Unable to build boost with Dinkumware STL version 4.02 grafik 552 Building universal binary on MacOSX grafik 683 libraries won't build jbandela 259 Problem compiling :/ jbandela 279 SLOOOWW tokenizer compilation on VC++6.0 jbandela 306 Visual C++ "Language Extensions" support johnmaddock 502 Problem running configure for unsupported platform jsiek 580 Max Flow Algorithm jsiek 905 Assertion failed in token_iterator.hpp rogeeff 747 failing on 6 targets in MacOS X rogeeff 847 [Test Library] How to init/free a singleton shammah 836 warning using pool.hpp turkanis 484 Boost.Iostreams and newline translation turkanis 579 boost.iostreams file_descriptor and sharing urzuga 426 lambda vs pure virtual functions vladimir_prus 1132 program_options documentation error. vladimir_prus 850 program_options strips off escaped quotes in some situations -- -- Marshall Marshall Clow Qualcomm, Inc. <mailto:mclow@qualcomm.com> The famous British scientist, Lord Kelvin, said: "When you measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it, but when you cannot (or do not) measure it, when you cannot (or do not) express it in numbers, then your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind."

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Trac submitted patches - by assignee
by Marshall Clow 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

[ 42 submitted patches ] If you are maintaining a library, and have not logged into the trac system at <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/>, please do so ASAP. Until you do that, no tickets can be assigned to you, and will remain under "None". Instructions on working with tickets can be found at: <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/TicketWorkflow> and a mapping of user names to "real names" can be found at: <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/report/16> 5 rogeeff 4 grafik 4 dave 4 agurtovoy 3 doug_gregor 2 turkanis 2 nesotto 2 anthonyw 2 None 1 vladimir_prus 1 urzuga 1 shammah 1 samuel_krempp 1 nobody 1 nasonov 1 jsiek 1 johnmaddock 1 dlwalker 1 djowel 1 danielw 1 bemandawes 1 az_sw_dude None 1116 disable some warnings in msvc build None 1182 Specifying character-set by the guideline and the inspect program agurtovoy 1049 Getting mpl/has_xxx.hpp to compile on AIX agurtovoy 637 Adjusts mpl::pair concept to be compatible with STL pairs agurtovoy 761 [mpl] evc4 port agurtovoy 861 Detect nested template members with has_template_xxx anthonyw 802 [thread] MSVS: Allow use of thread headers with /Za anthonyw 868 [thread] thread_specific_ptr::element_type ? az_sw_dude 827 Unused variable in format date parser bemandawes 1090 scoped_file class that deletes file at end of scope danielw 863 [parameter] fix operator|| for lazy binding dave 1020 Boost.Iterator proposal to add is_constant_iterator dave 1066 Patch to make Boost.Python compile on SunCC dave 857 add shared_ptr< const T> support dave 903 inconsistent usage of function pointer typedefs djowel 1208 gcc initialization order warnings dlwalker 653 [integer] add support for integers longer than long doug_gregor 1087 Mismatch between BBv2 and bjam toolsets in configure script. doug_gregor 862 [utility] Make result_of handle lambda expressions doug_gregor 870 boost::graph::graph_utility.hpp is_connected() bad call grafik 1031 AmigaOS fixes for bjam grafik 1074 FreeBSD specific patches to boost 1.34.0 grafik 798 bjam: always define OSPLAT grafik 989 Boost build does not support building universal binaries on macintosh johnmaddock 633 [config] evc4 port jsiek 541 [concept_check.hpp] remove unused variable warning in msvc nasonov 839 lexical_cast - local variable shadow patch nesotto 1027 [ptr_container] optional serialization support nesotto 1151 [range] make_indirect_range() nobody 884 [iostreams] workaround for the boost + stdcxx on MSVC 7.1 rogeeff 1169 errors in tutorial for test framework "new_year_resolution" rogeeff 645 [test] no eh exception handling functions on evc4 rogeeff 762 [test] evc4 issue with SEH support rogeeff 998 prg_exec_fail2 fail on ppc rogeeff 999 prg_exec_fail3 fails on release variant samuel_krempp 980 boost.format vc8/win32 compilation warning shammah 840 pool allocator - local variable shadow patch turkanis 586 iostreams // file_descriptor::seek BUG on files > 4 GB turkanis 869 [iostreams] patch for building by BBv2 urzuga 864 [lambda][utility] Make lambda support result<> vladimir_prus 1177 Various bugs in STLport jamfile -- -- Marshall Marshall Clow Qualcomm, Inc. <mailto:mclow@qualcomm.com> The famous British scientist, Lord Kelvin, said: "When you measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it, but when you cannot (or do not) measure it, when you cannot (or do not) express it in numbers, then your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind."

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Trac open feature requests - by assignee
by Marshall Clow 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

[ 78 open ] If you are maintaining a library, and have not logged into the trac system at <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/>, please do so ASAP. Until you do that, no tickets can be assigned to you, and will remain under "None". Instructions on working with tickets can be found at: <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/TicketWorkflow> and a mapping of user names to "real names" can be found at: <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/report/16> 14 djowel 9 pdimov 7 johnmaddock 5 jsiek 4 mark_rodgers 4 doug_gregor 4 az_sw_dude 3 dlwalker 3 dave 3 None 2 vladimir_prus 2 nasonov 2 grafik 2 ebf 1 witt 1 rogeeff 1 ramey 1 nobody 1 mumiee 1 jmaurer 1 garcia 1 eric_niebler 1 bemandawes 1 asutton 1 anthonyw 1 agurtovoy 1 <Blank> <Blank> 1093 Mandatory source files shouldn't require_ or give the impression to require_ the Boost Build system None 1059 random_on_sphere can be made 10 times faster! None 1166 [boostbook] paths relative to boost.root None 1219 Add official Visual C++ 2008 (9.0) support agurtovoy 799 mpl::if_ anthonyw 659 provide an abstract "Task" type based on Boost.Threads asutton 693 Add clique detection algorithms DFMax_ Bron-Kerbosch az_sw_dude 1207 Method "from_julian_day_number" (class gregorian_calendar) not documented az_sw_dude 17 Socket wrapper class az_sw_dude 187 locale az_sw_dude 596 make timezone csv file C/C++ compatible bemandawes 590 mkstemp dave 1180 [boost.python] def_readwrite need a default docstring dave 916 BPL Support for Python Callable Objects dave 918 __doc__ strings djowel 1156 feature request: linkid to the whole document djowel 1157 On Images djowel 1158 optional named parameters djowel 1159 bibliography support djowel 1173 Balanced comments djowel 1189 Scoped Macros djowel 1190 Markups inside simple markups djowel 1193 Nestable tables and lists and exlicit paragraph markup djowel 1194 Add ID to table to allow linking to tables easily djowel 1202 Add a [teletype] source mode djowel 1204 Non-breaking-space? djowel 1205 Quickbook getting started djowel 1213 Specify that [#named_anchors] are global djowel 1214 Provide an error count from a bjam Quickbook build dlwalker 1224 MPL compatibilty for Integer Type Selection Templates dlwalker 1225 Exact-sized Integer Type Selection Templates dlwalker 1227 Original/Signed/Unsigned Integer Variant Selection Templates doug_gregor 372 adjacency_matrix should model BidirectionalGraph doug_gregor 373 LEDA graph adaptors for undirected graphs doug_gregor 395 BGL graph types do not support allocators doug_gregor 746 max flow with lower bounds (capacities) ebf 1112 reference_wrapper<T> should convert to reference_wrapper<U> when T& is convertible to U& ebf 547 [variant] Compile time checked getter eric_niebler 1071 Request for BOOST_REVERSE_FOREACH and rationale garcia 1045 [multi_array] Need a proper swap operation grafik 1203 Decouple the backend grafik 714 [jam] HardLink rule on NT platform jmaurer 920 Proposed extension to random library johnmaddock 1102 Add BOOST_NO_IOSTREAM johnmaddock 1103 Add BOOST_NO_IOSFWD johnmaddock 1104 Add BOOST_NO_TYPEID johnmaddock 1105 Add BOOST_NO_STD_TYPEINFO or inject ::type_info into std johnmaddock 1178 Regular expression min match length johnmaddock 591 make portable stdint.h from boost code johnmaddock 764 [regex] add support for a BOOST_NO_CREGEX mode jsiek 100 more use of the concept "allocator" jsiek 182 Support aspect-orientation jsiek 193 Check ordering for mutexes jsiek 315 Implement operator[] for Tokenizer jsiek 694 Add Maximum Common Subgraph (MCS) algorithm mark_rodgers 30 parser mark_rodgers 558 add database library? mark_rodgers 821 allow_unregistered improvement mark_rodgers 87 function to get the size of a array mumiee 1201 Regexify the syntax highlighter nasonov 913 Specialization of lexical_cast nasonov 922 Lexical cast and wide characters nobody 795 [ublas] vector::back() pdimov 1107 Add weak_use_count to weak_ptr as a debugging aid pdimov 1109 intrusive_ptr needs a helper base class pdimov 1110 Add a release method to scoped_array pdimov 1111 boost::bind objects should expose function_type and list_type pdimov 1113 shared_array<T> should convert to shared_array<T const> pdimov 1114 Request for shared_ptr::type and shared_ptr::pointer pdimov 398 Support for embedded VC++ 4.0 pdimov 445 Can't delete automatically in circularly included object. pdimov 810 support for weak_ptr binding ramey 874 Ability to partially specialize implementation_level rogeeff 1136 Let BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL support std::wstring vladimir_prus 1129 Standalone doc_ outdated path from homepage vladimir_prus 674 find-library for boost decorated names witt 145 filter iterator adaptor should be able to be bidirectional -- -- Marshall Marshall Clow Qualcomm, Inc. <mailto:mclow@qualcomm.com> The famous British scientist, Lord Kelvin, said: "When you measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it, but when you cannot (or do not) measure it, when you cannot (or do not) express it in numbers, then your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind."

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Trac bugs - by assignee
by Marshall Clow 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

[ 204 open tickets today, 205 yesterday ] If you are maintaining a library, and have not logged into the trac system at <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/>, please do so ASAP. Until you do that, no tickets can be assigned to you, and will remain under "None". Instructions on working with tickets can be found at: <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/TicketWorkflow> and a mapping of user names to "real names" can be found at: <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/report/16> 16 ramey 16 doug_gregor 15 grafik 13 dgregor 12 az_sw_dude 10 rogeeff 9 None 8 johnmaddock 8 djowel 8 dave 7 turkanis 7 jsiek 6 nesotto 6 agurtovoy 5 anthonyw 4 witt 4 vladimir_prus 4 shammah 4 samuel_krempp 4 <Blank> 3 pdimov 3 jbandela 3 igaztanaga 3 fcacciola 3 danielw 3 bemandawes 2 urzuga 2 nasonov 2 jmaurer 2 hubert_holin 2 hkaiser 2 ebf 1 t_schwinger 1 speedsnail 1 samuel_k 1 pavol_droba 1 mistevens 1 dlwalker 1 aaron_windsor <Blank> 1033 iostreams::restrict doesn't work on an iostreams::file_source <Blank> 1070 [iostreams]boost\iostreams\copy.hpp line80 copy_impl <Blank> 823 Seekable file_descriptor_source /sink? <Blank> 824 BOOST_IOSTREAMS_HAS_LSEEK64 on Mac OS X None 1068 Mersenne twister disables streaming for Visual C++ None 1094 Finding the correct library to link (feature request for pkg-config support)h None 1184 property_tree assignment (operator) bug None 1187 bcp copy not needed files None 1222 lambda::ret<T> should declare result_type. None 1230 mbstate uninitialized None 1234 unbounded_array copy constructor does not compile with intel v 9.1 None 960 [random] lognormal_distribution problem None 991 [pool] aaron_windsor 778 top-level configure is broken agurtovoy 1001 gcc 4.1.2 segfaults on mpl/test/apply.cpp agurtovoy 1051 MPL header ordering triggers bug agurtovoy 1099 unable to iterate through a "non-explicitly-declared" mpl::set agurtovoy 1215 Boost 1.34.1_ mpl: Wrong workaround detection using MinGW32 (or.hpp_ line #33) agurtovoy 588 mpl::remove compile error with gcc 4.1.0 agurtovoy 640 documentation mistake anthonyw 1154 tss destruction segfaults in conjunction with dlopen/dlclose anthonyw 1168 [thread] tss crashes randomly anthonyw 1226 macro TEXT() in GetProcAddress() anthonyw 876 xtime documentation incomplete anthonyw 881 errors when build with Apache stdcxx az_sw_dude 1028 typo in boost header: date_time/time_defs.hpp az_sw_dude 1078 from_iso_string cannot read the output from to_iso_string az_sw_dude 1098 Urgent libboost-date-time1.33.1 : bugs on ia64 ? az_sw_dude 1147 date_time library contains global #define ERROR az_sw_dude 1160 warning: month_format shadows a member of this az_sw_dude 1162 warning: ticks shadows a member of this az_sw_dude 287 wrong usage of ios_base::narrow az_sw_dude 316 date_time type conversion warning az_sw_dude 604 from_ftime incorrectly processes FILETIME filled with zeros az_sw_dude 642 operator<< for gregorian::date_duration not found az_sw_dude 889 Insane Dependencies az_sw_dude 890 date_time library supports only the current dst rule bemandawes 559 linker error mingw 3.4.5 bemandawes 752 directory_iterator doesn't work with catch bemandawes 897 exists() throws exeption on existing but locked file on wind danielw 1044 Argument pack inaccessable in a functions return type danielw 1054 Parameter takes an "infinite" amount of time to compile with the Intel compiler. danielw 1097 keyword.hpp generates many warnings C4180: qualifier applied to function type has no meaning; ignored dave 1010 linking boost.python on freebsd dave 1019 iterator_facade::pointer should be the return type of operator-> (DR 445) dave 1085 Python rules for compiling in Mac OS X dave 1096 Tutorial needs updating for BBv2 dave 1179 [boost.python] can not export a union in VC2005sp1 dave 1181 [boost.python] can modify enum value dave 865 Use of C++0x keyword as identifier dave 910 gcc strict-aliasing problems with python dgregor 1002 [iostreams] close_impl<closable_tag> does not comply with spec dgregor 1003 [iostreams] copy-paste error in typedefs for wchar multichar_filters dgregor 1011 amd64: #error Boost.Numeric.Interval: Please specify rounding control mechanism. dgregor 1139 [iostreams] Regex filter segfaults when zero matches found dgregor 1140 boost::iostreams linked_streambuf bug dgregor 1149 Minor doc error in basic_null_device dgregor 1164 Floyd Warshall broken with unsigned edge weights dgregor 1185 iostreams::direct_streambuf<T_Tr>::is_open always returns false if output iterator is not null dgregor 1192 [boostbook] problem when two files have the same name dgregor 1199 configure doesn't work with path containing whitespaces (MacOS X) dgregor 1218 Boostbook error when generating documentation for a member typedef with a description dgregor 1232 mapped_file_source::is_open() is broken under windows dgregor 556 Bundled graph properties djowel 1170 Emit Warnings instead of # symbols in the syntax highlighter djowel 1171 Quickbook title output djowel 1172 non-utf djowel 1176 Space after inline code djowel 1206 Escaping from within code? djowel 241 Miss " = ParserT()" djowel 314 spirit insert_key_actor.hpp djowel 664 crash in boost::spirit::parse dlwalker 613 boost/crc.hpp uses non-standard conforming syntax doug_gregor 1021 [Graph][reverse_graph] Problem using reverse_graph adapter with an adapted user defined graph doug_gregor 1067 Function needs to use pass-by-reference internally doug_gregor 1076 compile error: disconnecting struct with operator()() doesn't work in VS2005 SP1 doug_gregor 375 LEDA graph adaptors do not handle hidden nodes properly doug_gregor 402 random_vertex/random_edge are unnecessarily inefficient doug_gregor 403 Document copy_component doug_gregor 447 reverse_graph and constness of property maps doug_gregor 708 Dijkstra no_init version should not require VertexListGraph doug_gregor 732 Johnson All-Pairs needs better "no path" information doug_gregor 733 Numbered headers don't work with "preferred" syntax doug_gregor 735 Fruchterman-Reingold grid performance can be improved doug_gregor 736 Const correctness violation doug_gregor 738 Memory leaks with signal::connect? doug_gregor 829 Implicit graph not implement doug_gregor 852 Problem with Boost and GCC 4.1 doug_gregor 891 Bunch of compilation error reported while using function.hpp ebf 965 [doc] boost::variant tutorial - final example uses v1_v2 should be seq1_seq2 ebf 993 Variant should use least common multiple of alignments_ rather than maximum fcacciola 1217 value_initialized leaves data uninitialized_ when using MSVC fcacciola 617 Numeric Conversion Documentation minor bug fcacciola 818 No zero-argument in_place() grafik 1023 inspect grafik 1041 Cygwin requires PATH setting. grafik 1062 Cygwin install stage fails with combination of patches grafik 1128 boost-buil rule does not overrule BOOST_BUILD_PATH grafik 1135 bjam crashes grafik 1146 KAI Referenced in compiler status acknowledgements grafik 1233 Boost website still refers to CVS grafik 431 boost jam problem with parallel builds grafik 546 boost.build needs fixes for HP/UX grafik 616 Boost Jam_ and non english directorys grafik 721 Generated files "@()" don't work in regular expressions. grafik 896 <native-wchar_t>off does not work when build with vc-8.0 grafik 959 linking fails when Boost is compiled with STLport 5.1.* on Linux (names mismatch) grafik 977 bjam crashes when compiled with gcc 4.2 grafik 986 Problem building Python modules on boost 1.34.0 hkaiser 1077 Spirit integer parser does not always detect integer overflow hkaiser 1079 boost-1.34.0 fails to compile. concept checks not satisfied. hubert_holin 162 Cannot compile octonion_test.cpp because of bug in sinc.hpp hubert_holin 647 octonion documentation bug igaztanaga 1080 boost::interprocess win32 global file mapping issue igaztanaga 1210 interprocess::barrier hangs during second use under linux (boost 1.33.1) igaztanaga 1231 interprocess_condition (emulated) hangs after notify_all(). jbandela 283 Compiler error for tokenizer on Solaris jbandela 501 token_iterator::at_end() result is inversed jbandela 665 bug in char_separator jmaurer 351 Diff in state of mersenne_twister gen between GCC3.41 & CW9 jmaurer 819 uniform_int<> with type's maximum availaible range error johnmaddock 1008 Undocumented type traits. johnmaddock 1081 Empty string rejected as perl-style regex johnmaddock 1083 boost_regex 1.34.0 uses ICU library without linking to it johnmaddock 1130 GCC -wundef warnings johnmaddock 1148 boost_1_34_1 regex library compile failure on aix with xlv johnmaddock 1216 problems compiling template class using is_class and is_arithmetic johnmaddock 492 Adding boost::is_complex to type_traits.hpp johnmaddock 883 errors when build with Apache stdcxx jsiek 416 Spelling of Edmonds-Karp-Algorithm jsiek 575 Calling subgraph::global_to_local on a root graph jsiek 636 strange compiling problem for transitive_closure jsiek 813 concept_check.hpp unused variable warning jsiek 815 remove_edge core dumps on self-circle jsiek 875 No iterator based constructor for adjacency_matrix jsiek 900 graphml reader namespace handling is broken mistevens 688 ublas: bug in mapped_vector_of_mapped_vector nasonov 1220 lexical_cast requires RTTI nasonov 754 boost::any - typeid comparison across shared boundaries nesotto 1145 Small bugs in Boost.Range documentation nesotto 471 boost.range and "const char[]". nesotto 518 [Boost.Range]boost::const_begin calls non-qualified 'begin' nesotto 723 local_time_facet error in VS2005 Win2003 nesotto 730 The ptr_map iterator cannot be dereference to value type nesotto 807 boost::assignment documentation: mathematical "typo" pavol_droba 1152 rle_example fails pdimov 1106 shared_ptr<T> should not convert to shared_ptr<U> when T* doesn't convert to U* pdimov 1108 shared_ptr does not compile under g++ with -fno-rtti pdimov 997 error in boost::bind doc ramey 1036 assert failure in oserializer.hpp:418 ramey 1038 "<" and ">" should be excaped in xml_oarchive ramey 1086 Serialization of weak_ptr produces invalid XML ramey 1089 missing boost::serialization::make_nvp in pointer container library ramey 1121 xml_archive_exception is missing seperate header file_ and documentation mismatch ramey 1137 Virtual destructor is missing ramey 1141 Dangerious operator<< for wostream ramey 1142 boost/serialization/optional doesn't include necessary header ramey 1143 Archive headers appear to be missing multiple(?) include files ramey 1223 boost::serialization chokes on correcly formatted empty XML element ramey 1229 [GCC] compiler warning: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions ramey 757 xml serialization fails when using namespace ramey 878 error C2039: 'mbstate_t' : is not a member of 'std' ramey 961 boost::basic_binary_oprimitive not instantiated correctly ramey 968 xml_grammar - incorrect define char ramey 969 basic_binary_iprimitive::load_binary bug rogeeff 1030 execution_monitor.ipp #warning directive breaks compilation on MSVC 8.0 rogeeff 1032 typo in Boost.Test documentation rogeeff 1050 BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE_FRACTION documentation missing rogeeff 1060 no example sources in online docs for Boost::Test rogeeff 1212 Template fixtures rogeeff 607 Log level names wrong in documentation rogeeff 842 typo in auto_unit_test.hpp Revision 1.17 rogeeff 893 grammatical error in error message rogeeff 956 Doc error in test examples. rogeeff 962 Missing links in Test library documentation samuel_k 585 64 bit compile warning/error for boost::format samuel_krempp 1195 patch: boost/format/parsing.hpp does not compile if BOOST_NO_LOCALE_ISDIGIT is defined samuel_krempp 1196 Patch: when BOOST_NO_STD_LOCALE is not defined_ boost/format/internals.hpp fails to compile. samuel_krempp 704 format zero length string msvc-8 samuel_krempp 859 boost::format ignores a user defined locale shammah 284 pool::purge_memory() does not reset next_size shammah 290 perfomance: memory cleanup for pool takes too long shammah 386 boost::pool_allocator breaks with vector of vectors shammah 88 ct_gcd_lcm.hpp compilation error speedsnail 1138 Problems with TSS and static thread library t_schwinger 1100 Building boost.function_types fails cvs rev-1.1_ no chdir command in bash turkanis 525 problem with boost::iostreams when compiled with Visual C++ turkanis 699 Changing size of memory-mapped file on Windows turkanis 786 bug in iostreams/copy.hpp line 81 turkanis 791 iostreams::tee_filter is for output only turkanis 817 Performance problem in iostreams turkanis 822 Incorrect usage of bad_write()_ bad_seek() etc. turkanis 856 iostreams file_descriptor::write fails under Win32 urzuga 574 [boost::lambda] Compile error with libstdc++ debug mode urzuga 781 Lambda: (_1 + "y")(string("x")) Doesn't Compile vladimir_prus 1165 more quoting problems vladimir_prus 1228 bug in toolset gcc + HP/UX PA-RSIC vladimir_prus 469 multitoken broken vladimir_prus 689 [program_options] Endless loop with long default arguments witt 1046 Boost.Python quickstart instructions mention nonexistent target witt 834 Homepage regression links witt 957 The "Getting Started" page does not mention the stdlib option witt 973 zip_iterator has value_type == reference -- -- Marshall Marshall Clow Qualcomm, Inc. <mailto:mclow@qualcomm.com> The famous British scientist, Lord Kelvin, said: "When you measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it, but when you cannot (or do not) measure it, when you cannot (or do not) express it in numbers, then your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind."

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Ideas Wanted: How best to configure Boost.TR1 with GCC?
by John Maddock 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

Folks, I have a configuration problem I don't know how to solve, so I'm soliciting for ideas. Here's the basic problem: Boost.TR1 has to replace some of the std library headers, and forward to the existing "real" ones. To do this it can either: 1) Use #include_next to forward to the real std lib header. 2) Use #include <../some_directory/header_name> to forward to the std lib header. Up until now, I've been using #1 with GCC, unfortunately if Boost is installed in /usr/include then it doesn't work: because the Boost include path appears *after* the std library one rather than before it. So... in response to a bug-report I recently changed it to method 2 (on Linux anyway), using the same configuration logic as STLport to determine what "some_directory" is called. Having tested it locally with several gcc versions on Linux everything seemed fine... except it's not: the problem is that gcc has a configuration option that lets you change the name of the directory the headers go in, and several Linux distro's change it from the default, so instead of being the normal default of something like "4.2.0" it's g++-v4 or something else that we can't automatically deduce :-( Obviously I could add a user-config macro for this purpose, but it's all a real pain basically :-( Anyone any better ideas? Or should I give up before I loose the will to live ! ;-) Thanks! John.

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Proposal: Polymorphic Value Objects
by Mathias Gaunard 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

I am proposing the addition of the following very simple utility in Boost, and thus request a very informal and early review of the ideas and design. Idea ---- The idea is to provide an utility that allows the manipulation of dynamically typed objects, that may be of any derived type of a given base type, as if it were a simple base object. This is quite similar to a smart pointer that does deep-copying, but without any pointer or memory allocation exposed. As code, it appears as such: poly_obj<Base> b = Derived(); poly_obj<BaseBase> b2 = b; // b2 is a copy of b (Derived::Derived(const Derived&) was called), implicit upcasting Motivation ---------- The motivation for this is that often usage of dynamic typing with inheritance and inclusion polymorphism often means explicit memory allocation and deallocation, and thus are often a source of unsafety. shared_ptr is one way to solve the problem, yet the shared object doesn't behave as a normal C++ object: it has entity semantics (= reference) instead of value semantics (= copying). shared_ptr is highly regarded as being one of the most useful utilities in boost by neophytes because it allows easier and simpler programming, without the usual issues in regards with pointers people are used to. However it might not always be the right solution, and I believe I have seen it being used even when sharing wasn't needed at all. As a matter of fact, it appears that sharing is rarely needed, and makes the program more difficult to understand. (sharing between threads also cause a few issues). Indeed, the object is freed when it is no longer used, but it's not always trivial to trace whether it's still used or not. Sharing also means you can expect side-effects coming from anywhere. Pure value objects make the program more easy to understand by making it more deterministic and thus to maintain. Value semantics is what most of the standard library is built upon. And thus it makes more sense to use the standard containers with poly_obj than with shared_ptr, because this is kind of semantics they were designed for. Design ------ To implement that utility, there is a need for a way to call the appropriate copy constructor and move constructor for the right types, even with type erasure. There is no standard way, however, to simply make constructors virtual, so there is a need to do such a thing. A few implementations of clone_ptr, a similar idea, that I have seen tried to make this non-intrusive. This of course adds some overhead, mainly in size of the object, but it has another downside: it requires to assume that the types of the objects being inserted in it are their real types. Thus, writing that kind of code: poly_obj<Base> b = poly_obj<Base>(Derived()).get(); Would produce type splitting. (the get() member function returns a real C++ reference to the object) I believe this is not really a good thing. And the only way to fix that is to make the virtuality of the constructors intrusive. I thus came up with the following design: class Foo { ... public: virtual void clone(void* p) const { return new(p) Foo(*this); } virtual std::pair<std::size_t, std::size_t> size_and_align() const { return std::make_pair(sizeof(Foo), boost::alignment_of<Foo>::value); } }; (Of course, a 'mixin' can be used to not have to repeatly rewrite such code for every class) It should be quite important to stabilize that interface, so remarks are welcome. It is judged very important that the user should be able to define how the memory is allocated. Since virtual templates aren't possible, an allocator cannot be passed to the 'clone' member function. The solution I came up with allows to clone the object on already initialized memory, and provides the necessary information to know what that memory should be like. It is, however, still not really possible to use standard allocators, which need to know the type. An additional member for moving might also be needed. Code ---- Some initial code is available on the vault, in "Utilities". http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?direction=0&order=&director… Note that the tests are just here to show how it's to be used, and are not real tests at all. No support for moving yet, and no support for using custom allocators either (since an allocator interface would have to be agreed upon, first). operator= also needs a facility to compare types, and thus it uses RTTI. Since I've seen a few times people who complained about the usage of RTTI, there is also a hack to replace it.

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1.34 boost::filesystem::size() issues on OSX PPC (works on OSX Intel though)
by John Zorko 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

Hello, all ... When I use v1.34s boost::filesystem::size() implementation on Mac OSX (10.4.10, Intel and PPC), I get different results. It appears to be a byte-ordering issue (since on little-endian machines (I tested on Windows and OSX Intel) it returns the correct result, while on big- endian machines (I tested on OSX PPC) it does not). While this is easy enough to code around, I don't recall reading anything about byte-ordering issues in the boost::filesystem portability guide, so i'm wondering if this is intentional? Regards, John Falling You - exploring the beauty of voice and sound http://www.fallingyou.com

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