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Hi! Want to Contribute
by shubham tibra 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Hello everone, I am Shubham Tibra, a student of IIT KHARAGPUR, INDIA and new to open source community. I can code in C, C++ and I would like to contribute in Boost C++ Libraries. Can someone help me in getting started? Thanks in advance.

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Regarding Contribution to boost C++ Libraries
by Kanika Midha 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Hello All, I am a third year undergraduate student. I am new to open source and I want to participate in GSOC with Boost C++ Libraries. Can anyone guide me on how to move forward with this. Thanking You, With Best Regards, Kanika Midha

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C++Now 2106 Call for Submission
by Jon Kalb 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Boost Developers, The Call for Submissions for C++Now 2016 (AKA BoostCon) has been released: http://cppnow.org/2016-conference/announcements/2015/11/17/call-for-submissi on.html The deadline for submitting is very near and cannot be extended, so don¹t delay your submission. The conference will be held in Aspen the week of May 9th. See you in Aspen! Jon

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[Locale] MSVC 2015 facets issue
by Artyom Beilis 04 Jan '16

04 Jan '16

Hello, Today I had a discussion on this ticket https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11878 There was a basic issue with Boost.Locale that couldn't format numbers at all properly, after back and forth it was discovered an issue with MSVC library. https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11878#comment:10 What is the best way to address this issue (open a bug there is no github issue tracker on this :-) ... Thank You, Artyom Beilis

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GSoC project Concurrent Hash Tables
by Shangtong Zhang 04 Jan '16

04 Jan '16

Hi Niall Douglas, I’m a senior student and want to take part in GSoC 2016. I’m interested in the project Concurrent Hash Tables in GSoC 2015 ideas, is it still available in GSoC 2016? I just found some links are invalid in the project description https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2015 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2015> Thanks, Shangtong Zhang, Senior Student, School of Computer Science, Fudan University, PRC.

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Problems building Boost libraries for Windows Store when C++/CX is involved
by Mikael Olenfalk 04 Jan '16

04 Jan '16

Hi, I am working on porting the boost libraries we depend on to winrt, most porting is rather straightforward (basically switch from win32 apis which are 20 years old to apis which are 15 years old :D ). However I have hit a bit of a problem when compiling Boost.Log. Boost.Log depends on Boost.Asio which uses C++/CX to call some of the newer Store APIs (Windows::Networking and friends). When I build I get these errors: compile-c-c++ ..\..\..\bin.v2\libs\log\build\msvc-14.0\debug\log-api-winnt\threading-multi\windows-api-store\dump_ssse3.obj dump_ssse3.cpp ..\..\..\libs\log\src\dump_ssse3.cpp: fatal error C1107: could not find assembly 'platform.winmd': please specify the assembly search path using /AI or by setting the LIBPATH environment variable call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86 store >nul cl /Zm800 /ZW /EHsc -nologo @"..\..\..\bin.v2\libs\log\build\msvc-14.0\debug\log-api-winnt\threading-multi\windows-api-store\dump_ssse3.obj.rsp" (As you can see I have monkey-patched msvc.jam to append the "store" argument to vcvarsall.bat - to no avail :( -- the monkey-patch is here if you want to look at it: https://github.com/mauve/build/commits/universal-windows-boost-1.59.0 ) The @response file looks like this: "..\..\..\libs\log\src\dump_ssse3.cpp" -Fo"..\..\..\bin.v2\libs\log\build\msvc-14.0\debug\log-api-winnt\threading-multi\windows-api-store\dump_ssse3.obj" -TP /Z7 /Od /Ob0 /W3 /GR /MDd /Zc:forScope /Zc:wchar_t /wd4675 /EHs /arch:SSE2 /bigobj /wd4003 /wd4456 /wd4459 /wd4503 -c -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_CHRONO_DYN_LINK=1 -DBOOST_DATE_TIME_DYN_LINK=1 -DBOOST_FILESYSTEM_DYN_LINK=1 -DBOOST_LOG_BUILDING_THE_LIB=1 -DBOOST_LOG_DLL -DBOOST_SPIRIT_USE_PHOENIX_V3=1 -DBOOST_SYSTEM_DYN_LINK=1 -DBOOST_SYSTEM_NO_DEPRECATED -DBOOST_THREAD_BUILD_DLL=1 -DBOOST_THREAD_DONT_USE_CHRONO=1 -DBOOST_THREAD_USE_DLL=1 -DDATE_TIME_INLINE -DWINAPI_FAMILY=WINAPI_FAMILY_APP -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS -D_SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_SCL_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0603 "-I..\..\.." Regards, Mikael

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Generic type inferencer function?
by Nat Goodspeed 04 Jan '16

04 Jan '16

Our code has any number of instances of this pattern: template <typename T, typename U> class SomeTemplate { SomeTemplate(const T& t, const U& u); ... }; template <typename T, typename U> SomeTemplate<T, U> make_SomeTemplate(const T& t, const U& u) { return SomeTemplate<T, U>(t, u); } Am I overlooking a generic boost::make<something>() of this general form? template <template<typename...> class CLASS_TEMPLATE, typename... ARGS> CLASS_TEMPLATE<ARGS...> make(ARGS && ... args) { return CLASS_TEMPLATE<ARGS...>(std::forward<ARGS>(args)...); } If that doesn't already exist... would it be useful to add (a less naive version) somewhere?

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[multiprecision] uses boost::math::gcd without including the header
by Peter Dimov 04 Jan '16

04 Jan '16

include/boost/multiprecision/cpp_int/misc.hpp uses boost::math::gcd (and lcm), but does not include common_factor_rt.hpp.

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Potential contribution scenarios?
by Miguel Coimbra 04 Jan '16

04 Jan '16

Dear Community, This is my first post, apologies if I am breaking any rule with this. I've wanted to learn and improve my C++ skills for some time now. Learning more about Boost's usage and contributing to it has been on my mind. As a Ph.D student (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal), I became aware of Boost's participation in Google's Summer of Code and read up on some of Boost's past projects. Two ideas of GSoC2015 in particular caught my attention: - Concurrent Hash Tables - Mentor: Niall Douglas - Boost Document Library development - Mentor: Antony Polukhin I have been looking for direct contacts to learn about some of these ideas (Niall Douglas and Antony Polukhin, respectively) from 2015's Google Summer of Code to find out more, but was unsuccessful so far. While the first idea was not put into practice, the second one was undertaken (by Anurag Ghosh if I am not mistaken). Would anyone be able to point me in a direction to learn more about the state of work on these two ideas (specially the Document Library) and (if possible) if they are available for me to pick up and look into ways of contributing? Perhaps querying the mentors of those ideas for feedback? Thank you very much for your time, Kind regards, Miguel E. Coimbra

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How to start Contributing !
by Yuvraj Singh 03 Jan '16

03 Jan '16

I am new to boost C++ libraries. I want to contribute to org and Participate in GSOC'2016 can someone please guide me through it. I have looked through the page https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2016 . Can someone please help me about *C++ programming aptitude test *mentioned on the page. How and when it is organised and what type of questions are asked ?. *Thanks !*

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