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Subject: [Boost-users] Review Wizard Report for May 2011
From: Ronald Garcia (rxg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-05-23 10:26:03
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Review Wizard Status Report for May 2011
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News
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1. Process Library Rejected
2. Phoenix Library Accepted
3. XInt Library Rejected
4. Type Traits Extensions Accepted
5. Locale Library Accepted
6. Convert Library Withdrawn
7. Conversion Library Accepted Provisionally
8. Context Library Accepted Provisionally
9. Boost 1.46.1 Released
Revised Libraries: Asio, Filesystem, Fusion, Graph,
ICL, Math, Polygon, Proto, Property Tree, Signals2, TR1, Unordered
Revised Tools: Quickbook
Open Issues
===========
The following libraries have been reviewed and await reports from their
review managers:
* AutoIndex(Tool) - reviewed May 2011; review manager: Daniel James.
The following libraries have been accepted to Boost, but have not yet
been submitted to SVN:
* GIL.IO - accepted January 2011; author: Christian Henning.
* Type Traits Extensions - accepted March 2011; author: Frederic Bron.
The following libraries have been accepted and submitted to SVN, but
have not yet appeared in a release:
* Phoenix - accepted March 2011; author: Joel de Guzmann.
* Move - accepted February 2011; author: Ion Gaztanaga.
* Geometry Library - accepted November 2009; author: Barend Gehreis et al.
* Ratio - accepted October 2010; author: Vicente Botet.
* Chrono - accepted January 2011; author: Vicente Botet.
The following libraries have been accepted provisionally to Boost, but
have not been submitted for mini-review and full acceptance:
* Switch - accepted provisionally January 2008; author: Steven Watanabe.
* Log - accepted provisionally March 2010; author: Andrey Semashev.
* Context - accepted provisionally May 2011; author: Oliver Kowalke.
General Announcements
=====================
As always, we need experienced review managers. The review schedule has
grown substantially but we have few volunteers, so manage reviews if
possible and if not please make sure to watch the review schedule and
participate. 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 cmu dot edu" and "phillips at pacific dot mps dot
ohio-state dot edu" 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 before
we do that, 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)
* Endian
* Conversion
* Sorting (M)
* AutoBuffer
* Containers
* Lockfree
* Fiber (M)
* Quaternions, Vectors, Matrices (M)
* Stopwatches
* Variadic Macro Data (M)
* Type Traits Introspection
* Block Pointer (M)
* Heaps
* Assign v2
* Network (M)
* Algorithm
* Local (M)
``(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: | `Boost Vault <http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=Pimpl.zip&directory=&>`__
| http://www.ddj.com/cpp/205918714 (documentation)
: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.
Endian
------
:Author: Beman Dawes
:Review Manager: Joel Falcou
:Download: http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/endian/
:Description:
Conversion
----------
:Author: Vicente Botet
:Review Manager: Gordon Woodhull
:Download: `Boost Vault <http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=conversion.zip&directory=Utilities&>`__
:Description: Generic explicit conversion between unrelated types.
Boost.Conversion provides:
* a generic ``convert_to`` function which can be specialized by the user to
make explicit conversion between unrelated types.
* a generic ``assign_to`` function which can be specialized by the user to
make explicit assignation between unrelated types.
* conversion between ``std::complex`` of explicitly convertible types.
* conversion between ``std::pair`` of explicitly convertible types.
* conversion between ``boost::optional`` of explicitly convertible types.
* conversion between ``boost::rational`` of explicitly convertible types.
* conversion between ``boost::interval`` of explicitly convertible types.
* conversion between ``boost::chrono::time_point`` and ``boost::ptime``.
* conversion between ``boost::chrono::duration`` and
``boost::time_duration``.
Sorting
-------
:Author: Steven Ross
:Review Manager: Needed
:Download: `Boost Vault <http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=algorithm_sorting.zip>`__
: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.
AutoBuffer
----------
:Author: Thorsten Ottosen
:Review Manager: Robert Stewart
:Download: http://www.cs.aau.dk/~nesotto/boost/auto_buffer.zip
:Description:
Boost.AutoBuffer provides a container for efficient dynamic, local buffers.
Furthermore, the container may be used as an alternative to std::vector,
offering greater flexibility and sometimes better performance.
Containers
----------
:Author: Ion Gaztanaga
:Review Manager: John Maddock
:Download: `Boost Vault <http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=boost.move.container.zip&directory=Containers&>`__
:Documentation: `Boost Sandbox <http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/move/libs/container/doc/html/index.html>`__
:Description:
Boost.Container library implements several well-known containers,
including STL containers. The aim of the library is to offers advanced
features not present in standard containers or to offer the latest
standard draft features for compilers that comply with C++03.
Lockfree
------------------
:Author: Tim Blechmann
:Review Manager: Hartmut Kaiser
:Download: `Boost Vault <http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=boost_lockfree-241109.zip&directory=Concurrent%20Programming&>`__
:Documentation: http://tim.klingt.org/boost_lockfree/
:Description:
Lockfree provides implementations of lock-free data structures.
Lock-free data structures can be accessed by multiple threads without
the necessity of blocking synchronization primitives such as guards.
Lock-free data structures can be used in real-time systems, where
blocking algorithms may lead to high worst-case execution times, to
avoid priority inversion, or to increase the scalability for
multi-processor machines.
Lockfree provides:
* boost::lockfree::fifo, a lock-free fifo queue
* boost::lockfree::stack, a lock-free stack
Fiber
-----
:Author: Oliver Kowalke
:Review Manager: Needed
:Download: `Boost Vault <http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=boost.fiber-0.3.7.zip&directory=Concurrent%20Programming&>`__
:Description: C++ Library for launching fibers (micro-threads) and
synchronizing data between the fibers.
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.
Stopwatches
-----------
:Author: Vicente Botet
:Review Manager: Anthony Williams
:Download: `Boost Vault <http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=stopwatches.zip&directory=System>`__
:Description:
On top of the standard facilities of Boost.Chrono, Stopwatches provides:
* Stopwatches: A facility to measure elapsed time with the ability to
start, stop, suspend, or resume measurement.
* Stopwatch concept
* Scoped helper classes allowing to pairwise start/stop operations,
suspend/resume and resume/suspend a Stopwatch.
* stopwatch, model of Stopwatch capturing elapsed Clock times.
* stopwatch_accumulator, model of Stopwatch capturing accumulated
elapsed Clock times.
* Stopclocks: a complete time reporting package that can be invoked in
a single line of code.
* stopwatch_reporter, convenient reporting to an output stream
(including wide char streams) of the elapsed time of models of
Stopwatch results.
* stopclock<Clock> shortcut of stopwatch_reporter<stopwatch<Clock>>
Variadic Macro Data
-------------------
:Author: Edward Diener
:Review Manager: Needed
:Download: `Boost Sandbox <http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/variadic_macro_data/>`__
:Description:
The variadic_macro_data 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.
Type Traits Introspection
-------------------------
:Author: Edward Diener
:Review Manager: Joel Falcou
:Download: `Boost Sandbox <http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/tti/>`__
:Description: The TTI library, which is an abbreviation for the 'Type
Traits Introspection' library, allows a programmer to introspect at
compile time the inner elements of a C++ type. The introspection
process depends on specifying the name of the inner element by
different macros for different types of elements, and then using a
generated metafunction to determine whether that element exists within
the enclosing type. The inner elements which can be introspected are
type, class template, member data, member function, static member
data, and static member function.
Block Pointer
-------------
:Author: Phil Bouchard
:Review Manager: Needed
:Download: `Boost Sandbox <https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/block_ptr/>`__
:Description: Deterministic memory manager of constant complexity capable of
handling cyclic collections.
Heaps
-----
:Author: Tim Blechmann
:Review Manager: Andrew Sutton
:Download: http://tim.klingt.org/git?p=boost_heap.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz
:Description:
The Heap library is an implementation of priority queues, data
structures that order their elements priority. They are useful in a
number of different applications especially graph search algorithms
and queuing systems. Whereas the STL provides a class template
std::priority_queue, Boost.Heap implements data structures with
different features and performance characteristics. One key feature is
the inclusion of "mutable" heaps, which allow the priorities of
enqueued objects to modified and their position in the queue updated.
The heaps in the library also support merging, stable sorting, and
equality and less-than comparison.
Assign v2
---------
:Author: Erwann Rogard
:Review Manager: John Bytheway
:Download: `Boost Sandbox <http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/assign_v2>`__
:Description: This library is an upgrade of Boost.Assign 1.0 that
redefines its functionality, with optional C++0x support and new
features. It expresses repetitive statements for assigning or
inserting elements via a basic grammar.
Network
-------
:Author: Dean Michael Berris
:Review Manager: Needed
:Download: http://cplusplus-soup.com/2011/04/18/cpp-netlib-0-9-0-released/
:Description: This is a library that provides application layer
protocol support using modern C++ techniques. It is light-weight,
fast, cross-platform and is intended to be as easy to configure as
possible.
Algorithm
---------
:Author: Marshall Clow
:Review Manager: Dave Abrahams
:Download: `Boost Sandbox Vault <http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=Boost.Algorithm-009.zip&directory=Algorithms>`__
:Description:
Boost.Algorithm is a collection of general purpose algorithms. While
Boost contains many libraries of data structures, there is no single
library for general purpose algorithms. Even though the algorithms are
generally useful, many tend to be thought of as "too small" for Boost.
An implementation of Boyer-Moore searching, for example, might take a
developer a week or so to implement, including test cases and
documentation. However, scheduling a review to include that code into
Boost might take several months, and run into resistance because "it
is too small". Nevertheless, a library of tested, reviewed, documented
algorithms can make the developer's life much easier, and that is the
purpose of this library.
Local
-----
:Author: Lorenzo Caminiti
:Review Manager: Needed
:Download: `Boost Sandbox <http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/local/>`__
:Description: This library supports local functions, local blocks, and
local exits
Libraries under development
===========================
See http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/LibrariesUnderConstruction
for a current listing of libraries under development.
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