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[github] Admin access for move/container/interprocess/intrusive
by Ion Gaztañaga 21 Dec '13

21 Dec '13

Hi, Following indications explained in [https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/ModAdmin] I requested admin access to Move, Container, Interprocess & Intrusive several days ago. The issue is still open, so have I missed something? Thanks to all working on this, Ion

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[git][testing] regression testing?
by Joaquín Mª López Muñoz 21 Dec '13

21 Dec '13

There's been some unanswered questions around this. I understand that regression tests, which are critical to ensure clean develop->master merges, will be eventually updated to work against git rather than the abandoned SVN, but I can't find any info on the progress of this. FWIW, I see some authors are going ahead and merging their libs anyway, which will bring breakages etc if changes are not properly validated through regression testing. Any indication on how this is progressing much appreciated. Best, Joaquín M López Muñoz Telefónica Digital ________________________________ Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario. Puede consultar nuestra política de envío y recepción de correo electrónico en el enlace situado más abajo. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee. We only send and receive email on the basis of the terms set out at: http://www.tid.es/ES/PAGINAS/disclaimer.aspx

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sidenote about guis (Re: [git] How the blazes are you supposed to update all the submodules?)
by Mateusz Loskot 20 Dec '13

20 Dec '13

(Please, adjust subject line for changed topic!) On 20 December 2013 11:15, Klaim - Joël Lamotte <mjklaim(a)gmail.com> wrote: > These days I only use SourceTree for both git and hg. It's cross platform, It's not cross platform, but Windows and Mac only https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/149631/sourcetree-for-linux?page=1#… A note on my own experience: 0. First, I aim to be comfy with git command, if not, then I will never understand git really. 1. Then, I use SourceTree where I can to complement git command (branches visualisation, etc.) 2. I use Qt Creator with its Git plugin which is nothing more than git command proxy, hence equivalent to git command. BTW, I'd like to do a bit of propaganda about Boost.Build support for Qt Creator: https://github.com/mloskot/qt-creator-plugin-boostbuild Best regards, -- Mateusz Łoskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net

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[typeof] Non-static data member
by Bjorn Reese 20 Dec '13

20 Dec '13

Consider the following example: void foo(int value) {} struct alpha { int value; typedef BOOST_TYPEOF(foo(value)) return_type; }; This example compiles just fine with g++, but with clang++ it only works if compiled with -std=c++11, otherwise it gives the error message below. I believe that clang is correct (this diagnostics was added in clang 3.1 [1].) https://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=revision&revision=154073 Is this a bug in Boost.Typeof or is it expected behavior? Is there a workaround for it? The error message is: /home/breese/src/treediff/treediff/main.cpp:17:30: error: invalid use of non-static data member 'value' typedef BOOST_TYPEOF(foo(value)) return_type; ^~~~~ /usr/local/include/boost/typeof/native.hpp:41:76: note: expanded from macro 'BOOST_TYPEOF' #define BOOST_TYPEOF(expr) BOOST_TYPEOF_KEYWORD(boost::type_of::ensure_obj(expr)) ^ 1 error generated.

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Re: [boost] [Locale] translate() couples key and output character widths
by Artyom Beilis 20 Dec '13

20 Dec '13

That was a loooooong and painful discussion during the boost.locale review. Such a change was asked by the reviewers that wanted to be able to use wide strings as keys. For example translate(L"© All Rights Are Reserved") Where "©" is non-ASCII character. This change was mostly required to support non-ascii characters in keys. To be honest I was strongly against the change but finally had to accept it. See: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/218543 Also you can search boost lists the locale review comments... Artyom Beilis -------------- CppCMS - C++ Web Framework: http://cppcms.com/ CppDB - C++ SQL Connectivity: http://cppcms.com/sql/cppdb/ -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 12/20/13, Alexander Lamaison <awl03(a)doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote: Subject: [boost] [Locale] translate() couples key and output character widths To: boost(a)lists.boost.org Date: Friday, December 20, 2013, 1:01 PM I've finally gotten round to changing from the pre-release version of Boost.Locale (v2.92) to the version now in Boost, and I was quite surprised by one change. Previously, I could do the following: void function_takes_wide_string(std::wstring message); function_takes_wide_string(boost::locale::translate("My translation key")); However, with the new version, the key must be passed in as a wide string if I am to be able to get a wide string out. This means changing `translate("blah")` to `translate(L"blah")` throughout. The change itself is no big deal, but the problem is that it feels like a change for the worse. The character width of the key is now coupled to the character width of the output, when the two are separate concepts and should be allowed to vary independently. The old class `message` coeerced the string to whichever width was required. The new class `basic_message<T>` coerces only to `basic_string<T>` and, worse than that, doesn't provide a method to explicitly convert to a different width string. My question, I suppose, is why was this change made? What makes the new API better? Alex -- Swish - Easy SFTP for Windows Explorer (http://www.swish-sftp.org) _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost

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[Locale] translate() couples key and output character widths
by Alexander Lamaison 20 Dec '13

20 Dec '13

I've finally gotten round to changing from the pre-release version of Boost.Locale (v2.92) to the version now in Boost, and I was quite surprised by one change. Previously, I could do the following: void function_takes_wide_string(std::wstring message); function_takes_wide_string(boost::locale::translate("My translation key")); However, with the new version, the key must be passed in as a wide string if I am to be able to get a wide string out. This means changing `translate("blah")` to `translate(L"blah")` throughout. The change itself is no big deal, but the problem is that it feels like a change for the worse. The character width of the key is now coupled to the character width of the output, when the two are separate concepts and should be allowed to vary independently. The old class `message` coeerced the string to whichever width was required. The new class `basic_message<T>` coerces only to `basic_string<T>` and, worse than that, doesn't provide a method to explicitly convert to a different width string. My question, I suppose, is why was this change made? What makes the new API better? Alex -- Swish - Easy SFTP for Windows Explorer (http://www.swish-sftp.org)

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[Filesystem] Hidden overloaded virtual function
by Ben Pope 20 Dec '13

20 Dec '13

./boost/detail/utf8_codecvt_facet.hpp:171:17: warning: 'boost::filesystem::detail::utf8_codecvt_facet::do_length' hides overloaded virtual function [-Woverloaded-virtual] virtual int do_length( ^ /usr/include/c++/v1/__locale:952:17: note: hidden overloaded virtual function 'std::__1::codecvt<wchar_t, char, __mbstate_t>::do_length' declared here: type mismatch at 1st parameter ('state_type &' (aka '__mbstate_t &') vs 'const std::mbstate_t &' (aka 'const __mbstate_t &')) virtual int do_length(state_type&, const extern_type* __frm, const extern_type* __end, size_t __mx) const; ^ I suspect that's not intentional. Ben

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Review Wizard Report for December 2013
by Ron Garcia 20 Dec '13

20 Dec '13

============================================== Review Wizard Status Report for December 2013 ============================================== News ==== 1. Boost 1.54.0 Released. New Libraries: Log, TTI, Type Erasure. 2. Boost 1.55.0 Released. New Libraries: Predef. 3. Type Index Accepted Provisionally. November 2013. 4. Boost repository moves to Git and GitHub. December 2013. Open Issues =========== The following libraries have review managers, but have not yet been scheduled for review: * Range Extensions - added May 2012; review manager: Neil Groves. The following libraries have been accepted to Boost, but have not yet been submitted to SVN: * Constrained Value - accepted September 2010; author: Robert Kawulak. * Contract - accepted September 2012; author: Lorenzo Caminiti. The following libraries have been accepted and submitted to SVN, but have not yet appeared in a release: * none The following libraries have been accepted provisionally to Boost, but have not been submitted for mini-review and full acceptance: * Endian - accepted provisionally November 2011; author: Beman Dawes. * Type Index - accepted provisionally November 2013; author: Antony Polukhin General Announcements ===================== As always, we need experienced review managers. Please take a look at the list of libraries in need of managers and check out their descriptions. In general review managers are active boost participants, including library contributors, infrastructure contributors, and other mailing list participants with a substantial track record of constructive participation. If you can serve as review manager for any of them, email Ron Garcia or John Phillips, "rxg at cs dot ubc dot ca" and "johnphillipsithica at gmail dot com" respectively. We are also suffering from a lack of reviewers. While we all understand time pressures and the need to complete paying work, the strength of Boost is based on the detailed and informed reviews submitted by you. If you are interested in reviewing a library but won't have time during the review period, you can always prepare your review ahead of time. No rule says you can only work on a review during the review period. A link to this report will be posted to www.boost.org. If you would like us to make any modifications or additions to this report, please email Ron or John. The review schedule is an unordered list of the libraries awaiting review. As such, any library on the schedule can be reviewed once the developer is ready, a review manager has been secured, and the manager, developer, and wizards agree on a date to schedule the review. Review Schedule =============== * Join (M) * Pimpl (M) * Sorting (M) * Quaternions, Vectors, Matrices (M) * Variadic Macro Data (M) * Block Pointer (M) * Singularity (M) * Extended Complex Numbers (M) * Metaparse (M) * Range Extensions * Nowide (M) * Array (M) * STL Extensions (M) * Countertree (M) * Process (M) * Asynchronous File I/O (M) * Application (M) * Fiber ``(M)`` marks libraries that need review managers. -------------------- Join ---- :Author: Yigong Liu :Review Manager: Needed :Download: http://channel.sourceforge.net/ :Description: Join is an asynchronous, message based C++ concurrency library based on join calculus. It is applicable both to multi-threaded applications and to the orchestration of asynchronous, event-based applications. It follows Comega's design and implementation and builds with Boost facilities. It provides a high level concurrency API with asynchronous methods, synchronous methods, and chords which are "join-patterns" defining the synchronization, asynchrony, and concurrency. Pimpl ----- :Author: Vladimir Batov :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://github.com/boost-vault/Miscellaneous/blob/master/Pimpl.zip :Description: The Pimpl idiom is a simple yet robust technique to minimize coupling via the separation of interface and implementation and then implementation hiding. This library provides a convenient yet flexible and generic deployment technique for the Pimpl idiom. It's seemingly complete and broadly applicable, yet minimal, simple and pleasant to use. Sorting ------- :Author: Steven Ross :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://github.com/boost-vault/Sorting :Description: A grouping of 3 templated hybrid radix/comparison-based sorting algorithms that provide superior worst-case and average-case performance to std::sort: integer_sort, which sorts fixed-size data types that support a rightshift (default of >>) and a comparison (default of <) operator. float_sort, which sorts standard floating-point numbers by safely casting them to integers. string_sort, which sorts variable-length data types, and is optimized for 8-bit character strings. All 3 algorithms have O(n(k/s + s)) runtime where k is the number of bits in the data type and s is a constant, and limited memory overhead (in the kB for realistic inputs). In testing, integer_sort varies from 35% faster to 2X as fast as std::sort, depending on processor, compiler optimizations, and data distribution. float_sort is roughly 70% faster than std::sort. string_sort is roughly 2X as fast as std::sort. Quaternions, Vectors, Matrices ------------------------------ :Author: Emil Dotchevski :Review Manager: Needed :Download: http://www.revergestudios.com/boost-qvm/ :Description: QVM defines a set of generic functions and operator overloads for working with quaternions, vectors and matrices of static size. The library also defines vector and matrix data types, however it allows users to introduce their own types by specializing the q_traits, v_traits and m_traits templates. Variadic Macro Data ------------------- :Author: Edward Diener :Review Manager: Needed :Download: `Boost Sandbox <http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/variadic_macro_data/>`__ :Description: This library adds support and functionality for variadic macros to Boost as well as integrating variadic macros with the Boost PP library without changing the latter library in any way. Block Pointer ------------- :Author: Phil Bouchard :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/block_ptr/ :Description: Deterministic memory manager of constant complexity capable of handling cyclic collections. Singularity ----------- :Author: Ben Robinson :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://github.com/cppmaven/Singularity :Description: The Singularity Design Pattern allows you to restrict any class to a single instance. Unlike the infamous Singleton, Singularity gives you direct control over the lifetime of the object, does not require you to grant global access to the object, nor does it limit you to the default constructor for that object. Extended Complex Numbers ------------------------ :Author: Matthieu Schaller :Review Manager: Needed :Download: http://code.google.com/p/cpp-imaginary-numbers/ :Description: The library is an extension of the std::complex class addressing two issues: 1. The standard does not guaranty the behaviour of the complex class if instantiated with types other than float/double/long double. 2. Some calculation where pure imaginary numbers (i.e. multiples of sqrt(-1)) appear are unnecessarily slowed down due to the lack of support for these numbers. The code I submit contains two interleaved classes boost::complex and boost::imaginary which can be instantiated with any type T provided T overloads the usual arithmetic operators and some basic (real) mathematical functions depending on which complex function will be used. It is thus an extended version of Thorsten Ottosen's n1869 proposal (http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2005/n1869.html) Metaparse --------- :Author: Abel Sinkovics :Review Manager: Needed :Download: http://abel.web.elte.hu/metaparse/metaparse.zip :Description: Metaparse is a library for constructing parsers parsing at compile-time based on template metaprogramming. The parsers built with the library take boost::mpl::strings as input and can produce - types - objects (types with public static members) - callable C++ functions (types with public static method) - template metafunction classes as output (based on the input being parsed). On compilers supporting constexpr the library provides the following syntactic sugar for writing the input of the parsers: BOOST_STRING("this is a string") The library can be used for implementing DSLs in C++, including DSLs making C++ template metaprogramming easier (see examples). Range Extensions ---------------- :Author: Akira Takahashi :Review Manager: Neil Groves :Download: https://github.com/faithandbrave/OvenToBoost :Description: This project adds some features of the Oven Range Library to Boost.Range. Features: - Additional Range Adaptors (taken, taken_while, dropped, dropped_while, elements, elements_key, memoized, outdirected) - Extensions for using Lambda (regular function, regular operator) - Infinite Range (iteration function) - and additional range utilities. Nowide ------ :Author: Artyom Beilis :Review Manager: Needed :Download: http://cppcms.com/files/nowide/ :Description: This library makes cross platform Unicode aware programming easier. It provides an implementation of standard C and C++ library functions, such that their inputs are UTF-8 aware on Windows without requiring to use Wide API. Array ----- :Author: Brian Smith :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://github.com/BrianJSmith/Array :Description: The array class is a C++11 compatible implementation of static multidimensional arrays. STL Extensions -------------- :Author: Vadim Stadnik :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://github.com/vstadnik/stl_ext_adv_review :Description: The proposed library [stl_ext_adv] offers augmented array based B+ trees and STL containers that support the interfaces of the C++03 sequences and associative containers. The library offers a number of extensions and performance improvements that are not available in C++03 and C++11 standard containers. Countertree ----------- :Author: Francisco Jose Tapia :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8437476/works/countertree_code_doc.zip :Description: This library is an implementation of a binary red-black counter tree. This tree have an additional counter in each leaf. This permit the access to the elements by the position, like in a vector. It is a random access container with random access iterators. COUNTERTREE This kind of trees have an additional counter in each leaf. This permit the access to the elements by the position, like in a vector. It is a random access container with random access iterators. With unordered information we have a vector with the same speed inserting and deleting in any position (O(log N)). With ordered information, we have the classes set, multiset, map and multimap, with identical interface than the STL classes, with the plus of access to the elements by position, like in a vector. The iterators are random access , and you can subtract them. SUBALLOCATOR The suballocator is a layer between the allocator and the data structures, compatible with any allocator with the STL definition. The suballocator replace to the allocator in the allocation of equal size elements. It provides speed, return the unused memory and decrease the memory used by the program and improve the cache performance due to the data locality improvement ( 30% of improvement of speed respect the std::allocator with GCC 4.7) Process ------- :Author: Boris Schaeling :Review Manager: Needed :Download: http://www.highscore.de/boost/process0.5/process.zip :Description: Boost.Process is a library to manage system processes. It can be used to: * create child processes * setup streams for child processes * communicate with child processes through streams (synchronously or asynchronously) * wait for processes to exit (synchronously or asynchronously) * terminate processes Asynchronous File I/O --------------------- :Author: Niall Douglas and Paul Kirth :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://github.com/BoostGSoC/boost.afio/archive/boost-peer-review.tar.gz :Description: Boost.AFIO is a linear scalable, batch, chainable, asynchronous closure execution engine with an almost wait free implementation extending Boost.ASIO and Boost.Thread specialised as a portable asynchronous file i/o implementation library. Implementation of this first version has been kept as simple as possible (~ 1000 active LOC) at the cost of some performance, though with a good compiler you can expect 25-50% of the performance of using raw Boost.ASIO. Application ----------- :Author: Renato Tegon Forti :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://github.com/retf/Boost.Application :Documentation: http://www.dokfile.com/appbeta4/docs/libs/application/doc/html/index.html :Description: Application provides an application environment, or start point to any people that want a basic infrastructure to build an system application on Windows or Unix Variants (e.g. Linux, MacOS). Application uses behaviours modeled using 'aspects' concept proposed by 'Vicente J. Botet Escriba', that allow easy extension and customization of library components. The application modes uses these components internally to achieve the user desirable behaviours. Application provide many useful ready-to-use features, e.g: * Run application as Windows Service; * Run application as UNIX/POSIX Daemon; * Plugin extension system; * Process(executable) Single instance Instantiation support; * Application SIGNAL/Callbacks customization; * Windows Service Setup feature; * And many others. Fiber ----- :Author: Oliver Kowalke :Review Manager: Nat Goodspeed :Download: https://github.com/olk/boost-fiber :Documentation: http://ok73.funpic.de/boost/libs/fiber/doc/html/index.html :Description: Fiber provides a framework for micro-/userland-threads (fibers) scheduled cooperatively. The API contains classes and functions to manage and synchronize fibers similar to boost.thread.' Libraries under development =========================== See http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/LibrariesUnderConstruction for a current listing of libraries under development.

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[git] Why are we using Github (was: The any library does not pull cleanly because of a forced update on develop and master)
by Cox, Michael 19 Dec '13

19 Dec '13

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Dave Abrahams <dave(a)boostpro.com> wrote: > "Cox, Michael" <mhcox(a)bluezoosoftware.com> writes: > > > I tried to update my local repositories to the latest changes in each > > submodule: > > > > git pull; git submodule foreach --recursive git pull > > > > When it got to the libs/any submodule, I got the following message: > > > > remote: Counting objects: 27, done. > > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done. > > remote: Total 6 (delta 2), reused 6 (delta 2) > > Unpacking objects: 100% (6/6), done. > > From https://github.com/boostorg/any > > + 3f0b981...e3e5da6 develop -> origin/develop (forced update) > > + 38039b3...d35b2d6 master -> origin/master (forced update) > > * [new tag] 20131209-develop -> 20131209-develop > > * [new tag] 20131209-master -> 20131209-master > > > > and my editor popped up with a merge commit message to edit. I think > > that's because the develop and master branches were force updated, > > re-writing history in develop and master. > > If there is not already a policy in place to prevent history rewriting > in public branches, we should have one. And if there's a GitHub > mechanism for denying the privilege, it should be enabled. > There may be a policy, but as far as I can tell, Github has no easy interface to allow you to enforce it, i.e. set the receive.denyNonFastForwards=true and receive.denyDeletes=true (for all branches) or branch.name>.mergeoptions=--ff-only (setting up fast forward only per branch). Maybe via plugin (like I assume the trac plugin is being used to integrate boost's trac web-site)? >From the git-config man page: receive.denyNonFastForwards If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update which is not a fast-forward. Use this to prevent such an update via a push, even if that push is forced. This configuration variable is set when initializing a shared repository. receive.denyDeletes If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that deletes the ref. Use this to prevent such a ref deletion via a push. branch.<name>.mergeoptions Sets default options for merging into branch <name>. The syntax and supported options are the same as those of git-merge(1), but option values containing whitespace characters are currently not supported. The last one I'm not sure if it works on the server side. It may be a client side only configuration item. I have seen examples of adding hooks to enforce such restrictions. Which brings me to a question I've been wanting to get answered: why was Github chosen in the first place? I know it's the 900-lb gorilla in public git repository hosts, but I think Bitbucket allows so much more flexibility in configuring your repositories: - Individual branches and wild-card refs can be configured with who is allowed to commit (which can be a group). - Individual branches can be designated as not deletable. - Individual branches can be designated as not rewritable. See Take control with branch restrictions<http://blog.bitbucket.org/2013/09/16/take-control-with-branch-restrictions/> for more info. If we are still in the acceptance phase of the git conversion (based on some of the comments in the thread this was taken from), maybe we should reconsider Github? What were the advantages of Github vs. other public repositories like Bitbucket? Michael > > -Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe & other changes: > http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost >

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Getting Started Testing with Linux virtual machine on Windows host
by Beman Dawes 19 Dec '13

19 Dec '13

I'm primarily a Windows developer, but like to be able to test locally on both Windows and Linux so I don't have to wait for Boost's regression tests to cycle. For several years I've done that on a Linux virtual machine. I just rebuilt my virtual machine and kept a log so I could share how it is done. Such a virtual machine is free and is easy enough that most Boost library maintainers who use Windows could do the setup in an afternoon, most of which is just downloading files, and can be overlapped with other work. See https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/StartTestingLinuxOnWindows Corrections or other comments appreciated. Enjoy! --Beman PS: The process would work in the other direction too, but it would require a Windows license (I.E. not free) and I don't have experience going in that direction so can't write about it.

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