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<h1>Review Wizard Status Report for April 2006</h1>
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<h2><a name="news" id="news"></a>News</h2>
<p>April 1, 2006 -- The "Promotion Traits" Review Begins
(Fast-Track) Proposal to add promote, integral_promotion and
floating_point_promotion class templates to type_traits
library.</p>
<p>April 6, 2006 -- The "Function Types" Review Begins
(Fast-Track) This library provides a metaprogramming facility
to classify, decompose and synthesize function-, function
pointer-, function reference- and member function pointer
types.</p>
<p>March 22, 2006 -- Asio Accepted Announcement: <a class=
"reference" href=
"https://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2006/03/102287.php">https://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2006/03/102287.php</a></p>
<p>February 17, 2006 - Shared Memory Library Accepted
Announcement: <a class="reference" href=
"https://lists.boost.org/boost-announce/2006/02/0083.php">https://lists.boost.org/boost-announce/2006/02/0083.php</a></p>
<p>February 5, 2006 - Fixed String Library Rejected
Announcement: <a class="reference" href=
"https://lists.boost.org/boost-announce/2006/02/0081.php">https://lists.boost.org/boost-announce/2006/02/0081.php</a></p>
<p>We need experienced review managers. Please take a look at
the list of libraries in need of managers and check out their
descriptions. If you can serve as review manager for any of
them, email Ron Garcia or Tom Brinkman "garcia at cs dot
indiana dot edu" and "reportbase at gmail dot com"
respectively.</p>
<p>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 Tom.</p>
<p>If you're library author and plan on submitting a library
for review in the next 3-6 months, send Ron or Tom a short
description of your library and we'll add it to the Libraries
Under Construction below. We know that there are many libaries
that are near completion, but we have hard time keeping track
all of them. Please keep us informed about your progress.</p>
<h2><a name="review-queue" id="review-queue"></a>Review
Queue</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Promotion Traits - April 1, 2006 (fast-track)</li>
<li>Function Types - April 6, 2006 (fast-track)</li>
<li>Fusion</li>
<li>Pimpl Pointer</li>
<li>Property Tree</li>
<li>Physical Quantities System</li>
<li>Intrusive Containers</li>
</ul>
<hr class="docutils" />
<h3><a name="function-types-mini-re-review" id=
"function-types-mini-re-review">Function Types
(mini-re-review)</a></h3>
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<col class="field-name" />
<col class="field-body" />
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<th class="field-name">Author:</th>
<td class="field-body">Tobias Schwinger</td>
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<tr class="field">
<th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th>
<td class="field-body">Tom Brinkman</td>
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<tr class="field">
<th class="field-name">Download:</th>
<td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href=
"http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/vault/">http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/vault/</a></td>
</tr>
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<th class="field-name">Description:</th>
<td class="field-body">
<p class="first">This library provides a
metaprogramming facility to classify, decompose and
synthesize function-, function pointer-, function
reference- and member function pointer types. For the
purpose of this documentation, these types are
collectively referred to as function types (this
differs from the standard definition and redefines the
term from a programmer's perspective to refer to the
most common types that involve functions).</p>
<p>The classes introduced by this library shall conform
to the concepts of the Boost Metaprogramming library
(MPL).</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>The Function Types library enables the user
to:</dt>
<dd>
<ul class="first last simple">
<li>test an arbitrary type for being a function
type of specified kind,</li>
<li>inspect properties of function types,</li>
<li>view and modify sub types of an encapsulated
function type with MPL Sequence operations,
and</li>
<li>synthesize function types.</li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
<p class="last">This library supports variadic
functions and can be configured to support non-default
calling conventions.</p>
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<h3><a name="promotion-traits" id=
"promotion-traits"></a>Promotion Traits</h3>
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<col class="field-name" />
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<th class="field-name">Author:</th>
<td class="field-body">Alexander Nasonov</td>
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<tr class="field">
<th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th>
<td class="field-body">Tobias Schwinger</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field">
<th class="field-name">Download:</th>
<td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href=
"http://cpp-experiment.sourceforge.net/promote-20050917.tar.gz">
http://cpp-experiment.sourceforge.net/promote-20050917.tar.gz</a></td>
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<th class="field-name">Description:</th>
<td class="field-body">
<p class="first">Proposal to add promote,
integral_promotion and floating_point_promotion class
templates to type_traits library.</p>
<p>Alexander tried it on different compilers with
various success: GNU/Linux (gentoo-hardened): gcc 3.3
and 3.4, Intel 7, 8 and 9 Windows: VC7 free compiler
Sparc Solaris: Sun C++ 5.3 and 5.7</p>
<p class="last">See comments at the beginning of
promote_enum_test.cpp for what is broken.</p>
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<h3><a name="intrusive-containers" id=
"intrusive-containers"></a>Intrusive Containers</h3>
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<col class="field-name" />
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<th class="field-name">Author:</th>
<td class="field-body">Olaf Krzikalla</td>
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<tr class="field">
<th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th>
<td class="field-body">Thorsten Ottosen</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field">
<th class="field-name">Download:</th>
<td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href=
"http://people.freenet.de/turtle++/intrusive.zip">http://people.freenet.de/turtle++/intrusive.zip</a></td>
</tr>
<tr class="field">
<th class="field-name">Description:</th>
<td class="field-body">While intrusive containers were
and are widely used in C, they became more and more
forgotten in the C++-world due to the presence of the
standard containers, which don't support intrusive
techniques. Boost.Intrusive not only reintroduces this
technique to C++, but also encapsulates the
implementation in STL-like interfaces. Hence anyone
familiar with standard containers can use intrusive
containers with ease.</td>
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<h3><a name="fusion" id="fusion"></a>Fusion</h3>
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<th class="field-name">Author:</th>
<td class="field-body">Joel de Guzman</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field">
<th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th>
<td class="field-body">Ron Garcia</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field">
<th class="field-name">Download:</th>
<td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href=
"http://spirit.sourceforge.net/dl_more/fusion_v2/">http://spirit.sourceforge.net/dl_more/fusion_v2/</a>
<a class="reference" href=
"http://spirit.sourceforge.net/dl_more/fusion_v2.zip">http://spirit.sourceforge.net/dl_more/fusion_v2.zip</a></td>
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<tr class="field">
<th class="field-name">Description:</th>
<td class="field-body">
<p class="first">Fusion is a library of heterogenous
containers and views and algorithms. A set of
heterogenous containers (vector, list, set and map) is
provided out of the box along with view classes that
present various composable views over the data. The
containers and views follow a common sequence concept
with an underlying iterator concept that binds it all
together, suitably making the algorithms fully generic
over all sequence types.</p>
<p class="last">The architecture is somewhat modeled
after MPL which in turn is modeled after STL. It is
code-named "fusion" because the library is the "fusion"
of compile time metaprogramming with runtime
programming.</p>
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<h3><a name="pimpl-pointer" id="pimpl-pointer"></a>Pimpl
Pointer</h3>
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<th class="field-name">Author:</th>
<td class="field-body">Asger Mangaard</td>
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<tr class="field">
<th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th>
<td class="field-body">Need Volunteer</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field">
<th class="field-name">Download:</th>
<td class="field-body">Boost Sandbox (<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://boost-consulting.com/vault/">http://boost-consulting.com/vault/</a>)
under pimpl_ptr.</td>
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<tr class="field">
<th class="field-name">Description:</th>
<td class="field-body">The pimpl idiom is widely used to
reduce compile times and disable code coupling. It does
so by moving private parts of a class from the .hpp file
to the .cpp file. However, it's implementation can be
tricky, and with many pitfalls (especially regarding
memory management). The pimpl_ptr library is a single
header file, implementing a special policy based smart
pointer to greately ease the implementation of the pimpl
idiom.</td>
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<h3><a name="property-tree" id="property-tree"></a>Property
Tree</h3>
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<th class="field-name">Author:</th>
<td class="field-body">Marcin Kalicinski</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field">
<th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th>
<td class="field-body">Need Volunteer</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field">
<th class="field-name">Download:</th>
<td class="field-body">Boost Sandbox Vault -
property_tree_rev4.zip <a class="reference" href=
"http://kaalus.atspace.com/ptree">http://kaalus.atspace.com/ptree</a></td>
</tr>
<tr class="field">
<th class="field-name">Description:</th>
<td class="field-body">Property tree is a data structure
- a tree of (key, value) pairs. It differs from its
cousin, "usual" property map, because it is hierarchical,
not linear. Thus, it is more like a minimalistic Document
Object Model, but not bound to any specific file format.
It can store contents of XML files, windows registry,
JSON files, INI files, even command line parameters. The
library contains parsers for all these formats, and
more.</td>
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</tbody>
</table>
<h3><a name="physical-quantities-system" id=
"physical-quantities-system"></a>Physical Quantities
System</h3>
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<th class="field-name">Author:</th>
<td class="field-body">Andy Little</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field">
<th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th>
<td class="field-body">Need Volunteer</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field">
<th class="field-name">Download:</th>
<td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href=
"http://tinyurl.com/7m5l8">http://tinyurl.com/7m5l8</a></td>
</tr>
<tr class="field">
<th class="field-name">Description:</th>
<td class="field-body">PQS (Physical Quantities System)
is used for modelling physical-quantities in C++
programs. The advantages over using built-in types in the
role include: trapping errors in dimensional analysis,
detailed semantic specifications for reliable and
repeatable conversions between units and
self-documentation of source code. PQS is based around
the principles and guidelines of the International System
of Units (SI). The library predefines a large number of
quantities, physical and maths constants using a common
syntax. The library also includes (or will soon include)
classes for manipulating quantities algebraically, for
example angles (radians, steradians,
degrees,minutes,seconds) and vectors, matrices and
quaternions for more advanced modelling of physical
systems.</td>
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<h2><a name="libraries-under-development" id=
"libraries-under-development"></a>Libraries under
development</h2>
<p>Geometry Library - Author - Andy Little (?)</p>
<p>C2_functions Library - Author - Marcus Mendenhall</p>
<p>Please let us know of any libraries you are currently
developing that you intend to submit for review.</p>
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