[Boost-announce] Boost review of the Convert library is ongoing

Subject: [Boost-announce] Boost review of the Convert library is ongoing
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-05-13 18:07:59

The review of the Convert library started Monday, May 12 and goes 
through Wednesday May 21. Many people may have missed the first 
announcement since the mailing lists were held back when the review 
started so I am announcing this again.

The Convert library builds on the boost::lexical_cast original design 
and experience and takes those conversion/transformation-related ideas 
further.

     * to be applicable to a wider range of conversion-related use-cases,
     * to provide a more flexible, extendible and configurable 
type-conversion framework.

The Convert library can be cloned from GitHub at 
https://github.com/yet-another-user/boost.convert. The library follows 
the modular-boost format. Just clone it to modular-boost/libs in the 
'convert' subdirectory and run 'b2 headers' in order to create a link to 
its header file directory in the modular-boost/boost subdirectory.

The library comes with documentation in its top-level index.html or 
doc/html/index.html file. You can also view the documentation online at 
http://yet-another-user.github.io/boost.convert/doc/html/index.html.
The library is by Vladimir Batov and is a second reiteration with a 
greater focus of his library that was reviewed in the past. I am Edward 
Diener and I am again serving as the review manager of the library.

If you have used lexical_cast or, like many C++ programmers, have used 
stringstream to do string-to-type, type-to-string conversions please 
look at this library. We need reviews of whatever point of view before a 
library can even be considered a Boost library.

Comments, questions, and reviews will all be welcome for the library. 
Please try to sum up your review by answering these questions:

     What is your evaluation of the design?
     What is your evaluation of the implementation?
     What is your evaluation of the documentation?
     What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the library?
     Did you try to use the library? With what compiler? Did you have 
any problems?
     How much effort did you put into your evaluation? A glance? A quick 
reading? In-depth study?
     Are you knowledgeable about the problem domain?

And finally:

     Do you think the library should be accepted as a Boost library?

As always whether you do or do not feel that the library should be 
accepted into Boost please specify any changes you would like to see for 
the library to be better in your estimation.