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GSoC 2014 - Full Text Search
by Nikhar Agrawal 09 Feb '14

09 Feb '14

Hi everyone, I'm Nikhar Agrawal, currently pursuing my B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIIT-H. I was a GSoC student last time for Boost C++ under the mentorship of Christopher Kormanyos and advisory mentorship of John Maddock and Paul Bristow for the Boost.Math Bernoulli numbers project. It was a wonderful experience to have successfully managed to contribute to Boost. And it was a great learning process. I would love to participate this year as well. I was going through the ideas page and saw 'Full Text Search' listed in tiny letters near the bottom of the page. As part of our coursework on Information Retrieval and Extraction in college, we have built a project on searching for queries on a 42 gb wikipedia xml dump. So, I got a little excited at seeing 'Full Text Search' being listed. I skimmed through the Boost mailing list archives but couldn't find any information on this. Could someone kindly elaborate what exactly is expected from this? And if there's any interest from anyone in mentoring this project? Thanks.

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GSoC
by Utsav Tiwary 09 Feb '14

09 Feb '14

Are there existing libraries for the implementation of finite difference method to solve boundary value problems ? I've been working on it lately using MPI.

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[Move] BOOST_NO_RVALUE_REFERENCES - or so it thinks
by John M. Dlugosz 08 Feb '14

08 Feb '14

Real-world software projects don't always get to use the latest stuff in a timely manner. I'm working on some code that needs to work across several platforms, which generally means programming to the least-common-denominator. What I want to bring up in particular is the issue that the compiler may be more up to date with C++11 than the libraries. Someone trying to use Boost on Android (IIRC) trying to change the Boost config to tell it that C++11 support is available said it was like playing "Whack-a-Mole", in that each change caused more problems elsewhere. It seems that the overall issue is Compiler vs Library. Saying that rvalue references are available doesn't mean that std::move, std::forward, etc. are available. I threw together a move.h file that contains forward, move, and a few others taken exactly from the standard â all one-liners. That lets people who know that the compiler really does know what to do with && write code that uses them, just so long as they remember to use the project's namespace and not std, or the multi-platform build coughs it back out. I also successfully crossbred the unique_ptr implementation from libcxx-3.4 with Boost + my own move.h namespace. Now try putting a (real) move-only object into a boost::container::vector when Boost is built with BOOST_NO_RVALUE_REFERENCES. Might I convince the powers-that-be to reconfigure Boost with that #define removed? That could be done when upgrading Boost anyway, but it seems to not work! Whack-a-mole. I didn't do it personally, but it appears that at the very least Boost would need its own move.h and whatever odds and ends it assumes are present. That would be quite easy since these little functions are just fancy casts and you can mix code that calls different "implementations" of them. So Boost could always use boost::move which turns into static_cast<typename boost::remove_reference<T>::type&&>(t); (as opposed to just 'using' the std::move) and other code doesn't care. That is, it would not be necessary to configure "has std::move vs not have std::move" but just don't rely on std::move at all. In short, I don't know if it's just me, but most of the company jobs I've worked have lagged behind, with upgrading the compiler and/or libs being a Big Deal, especially if using outside code that's already compiled. So, I want to raise the possibility that making Boost work with native rvalue references but legacy (C++03) standard library would be useful to some significant population of developers. #undef'ing BOOST_NO_RVALUE_REFERENCES in the config ought to just work, at least on a lib by lib basis. I mean, it might be fine if some libs didn't handle that as many people don't use every single lib in every project. Boost.Container is interesting though because it is used to overcome legacy std::map etc. as one of its stated goals. It's also good for avoiding platform compatibility issues when all platforms use the same map class (e.g. the master build doesn't spit out failures as erase is void on some platform but returned an iterator on the platform used to try the code before checking it in). The current version of Clang as used for Mac and iPhone/iPad development has && working even if you don't enable the C++11 dialect. So sneaking in some &&'s in a program doesn't require any reconfiguration of the projects. âJohn

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Fwd: [Boost-users] Attn: We need GSoC 2014 mentors for Boost!
by Antony Polukhin 08 Feb '14

08 Feb '14

2014-02-08 7:15 GMT+04:00 Niall Douglas <s_sourceforge(a)nedprod.com>: <...> Therefore, if you think yourself able to mentor a student doing some > work on Boost this summer, *please* consider adding a description of > the proposed work item and your name to the list at > https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2014. > I'm in! How about the following projects: * Running regression tests on Android/RaspberyRI/Qemu, writing a documentation about crosscompiing Boost libraries. + Adding automated TravicCI testing scripts to all the Boost libraries * Library for basic integration with spreadsheet applications Excel/LibreOfficeCalc/OpenOfficeCalc and OfficePrograms (Modifying cell, getting results from cells, saving documents, saving in PDF) * Program protection and obfuscation tools (marking part of assembly at compilation, encrypting/decrypting part of the binary on-the-fly, detecting debuggers, detecting emulators and virtual machines, computer identification and gathering hardware specific identifiers...) If there is an interest in those projects, I'll add some description to the GSOC wiki page. -- Best regards, Antony Polukhin

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Odd regression test results
by Peter Dimov 08 Feb '14

08 Feb '14

Something's not right with this result (among others): http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/output/teeks99-02e… It says "Rev 906385497d1f3de04bb8391c5af87e563fd4c0f7". Revision 906385 updates config, and the preceding revision that updates smart_ptr is https://github.com/boostorg/boost/commit/891371e4ba8edf7dd21dc828841f5eab56… which brings it up to +Subproject commit e1f170cd494d2e7ce5e6e7d3f0fe016aceb88048 Rev. e1f170 of smart_ptr is a relatively recent one, as can be seen here: https://github.com/boostorg/smart_ptr/commits/develop The error messages in the report, however: C:\local\teeks99-02\e\boost_root\boost/smart_ptr/detail/shared_count.hpp(276) : error C2903: 'rebind' : symbol is neither a class template nor a function template C:\local\teeks99-02\e\boost_root\boost/smart_ptr/make_shared_object.hpp(174) : see reference to function template instantiation 'boost::shared_ptr<int>::shared_ptr<T, ... seem to suggest that neither shared_count.hpp nor make_shared_object.hpp have been updated to e1f170.

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Cairo and ISO C++ for GSoC proposed?
by Mateusz Łoskot 08 Feb '14

08 Feb '14

Hi, I haven't been monitoring the GSoC discussions closely, just looked at the final https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2014 I'm wondering, has anyone proposed for GSoC to kickstart initial work on Cairo for ISO C++ according to the papers posted by Herb Sutter? Here is Herb's post: http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2013-December/024858.html Best regards, -- Mateusz Łoskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net

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[testing] More failed test results with no meaningful content
by John Maddock 08 Feb '14

08 Feb '14

For example: http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/output/marshall-ma… leads to a successfully compiled file if you follow the links. Anyone any idea what's going on here, and is there any way to make this reporting more reliable? Frankly the results will get widely ignored if no one can see what's actually going on. Thanks, John.

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Gsoc chrono::date Library
by Arun Sori 08 Feb '14

08 Feb '14

Hey All, I am interested in contributing to the chrono::date library project.I have read the paper given in the link and need some ideas on how to start. I am a new contributor so please guide me to the initial phase and spare no details. As a start the paper seems to propose a new library based on boost::date. Should I first familiarize with the boost::date code ( try to compile it. Read the documentations etc.). The project also has a prototype available. Are we trying to build the library further upon it ? What extra do we need to built in this project ? What are some mandatory prerequisites for the project ? Thanks, Arun

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[boost-bugs] Where is the archive, please?
by Fletcher, John P 08 Feb '14

08 Feb '14

I am maintaining Boost phoenix and whenever I put comments onto the bug trac I get an email with a copy from boost-bugs. I would like to look at the archive of this but it is not listed on the gmane lists. http://news.gmane.org/index.php?prefix=gmane.comp.lib.boost It must be somewhere else. Please help. John Fletcher

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[testing] Strange Darwin test failures
by John Maddock 08 Feb '14

08 Feb '14

Does anyone know why this would happen: http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/output/marshall-ma… program exits with: libc++abi.dylib: terminate called throwing an exception Googling around finds: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/103649/macports-dylib-failure-with… which suggests some sort of toolset misconfiguration? Thanks, John.

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