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Review Wizard Status Report for January 2006
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News
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====
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Happy New Year! Here are some statistics regarding Boost Library
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reviews in 2005:
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* 12 Libraries were reviewed
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* 8 Libraries were accepted
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* 1 Library (Function Types) was accepted pending a mini-review
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* 2 Libraries were rejected
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* 1 Library has yet to receive a final verdict (ASIO)
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Policy Pointer has been removed from the review queue because the author has
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stated that it is not quite ready.
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We need review managers. Please take a look at the list of libraries
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in need of managers and check out their descriptions. If you can
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serve as review manager for any of them, send one of us an email.
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Note:
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If you have any suggestions about how we could improve
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the Review Wizard's status report,
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please email "reportbase at gmail dot com"
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and "garcia at cs dot indiana dot edu".
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Review Managers Needed
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======================
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There are a few libraries in the review queue in need
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of review managers. If you would like to volunteer to be a review
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manager, please contact Ron or Tom.
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The following libraries still require review managers:
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* Fusion
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* Shmem
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* Pimpl Pointer
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* Type Traits (modification)
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* Function Types
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Review Queue
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* Fixed Strings - January 19 2006 - January 28 2006
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* Intrusive Containers
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* Function Types (mini-re-review)
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* Shmem
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* Fusion
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* Pimpl Pointer
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* Type Traits (modification)
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Fixed Strings
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:Author: Reece Dunn
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:Review Manager: Harmut Kaiser
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:Download:
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Boost Sandbox (http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/) under fixed_string
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:Description:
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The fixed string library provides buffer overrun protection for static
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sized strings (char s[ n ]). It provides a C-style string
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interface for compatibility with C code (for
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example, porting a C program to C++).
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There is also a std::string-style interface using a class based on
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flex_string by Andre Alexandrescu with a few limitations due to the
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non-resizable nature of the class.
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Intrusive Containers
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:Author: Olaf Krzikalla
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:Review Manager: to be determined
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:Download:
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http://people.freenet.de/turtle++/intrusive.zip
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:Description:
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While intrusive containers were and are widely used in C, they became
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more and more forgotten in the C++-world due to the presence of the
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standard containers, which don't support intrusive
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techniques. Boost.Intrusive not only reintroduces this technique to
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C++, but also encapsulates the implementation in STL-like
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interfaces. Hence anyone familiar with standard containers can use
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intrusive containers with ease.
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Function Types (mini-re-review)
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:Author: Tobias Schwinger
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:Review Manager: to be determined
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:Download:
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http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/vault/
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:Description:
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This library provides a metaprogramming facility
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to classify, decompose and synthesize function-,
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function pointer-, function reference- and
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member function pointer types. For the purpose
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of this documentation, these types are
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collectively referred to as function
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types (this differs from the standard
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definition and redefines the term from
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a programmer's perspective to refer to
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the most common types that involve functions).
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The classes introduced by this library
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shall conform to the concepts of the
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Boost Metaprogramming library (MPL).
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The Function Types library enables the user to:
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* test an arbitrary type for
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being a function type of specified kind,
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* inspect properties of function types,
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* view and modify sub types of an
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encapsulated function type with
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MPL Sequence operations, and
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* synthesize function types.
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This library supports variadic functions and
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can be configured to support
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non-default calling conventions.
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Shmem
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:Author: Ion Gaztanaga
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:Review Manager: to be determined
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:Download:
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Boost Sandbox Vault -> Memory (http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/vault/index.php?direction=0&order=&directory=Memory)
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http://ice.prohosting.com/newfunk/boost/libs/shmem/doc/html/index.html
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:Description:
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Shmem offers tools to simplify shared memory usage in
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applications. These include shared memory creation/destruction and
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synchronization objects. It also implements dynamic allocation of
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portions of a shared memory segment and an easy way to construct C++
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objects in shared memory.
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Apart from this, Shmem implements a wide range of STL-like containers
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and allocators that can be safely placed in shared memory, helpful to
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implement complex shared memory data-bases and other efficient
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inter-process communications.
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Fusion
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:Author: Joel de Guzman
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:Review Manager: to be determined
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:Download:
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http://spirit.sourceforge.net/dl_more/fusion_v2/
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http://spirit.sourceforge.net/dl_more/fusion_v2.zip
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:Description:
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Fusion is a library of heterogenous containers and views and
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algorithms. A set of heterogenous containers (vector, list, set and
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map) is provided out of the box along with view classes that present
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various composable views over the data. The containers and views
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follow a common sequence concept with an underlying iterator concept
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that binds it all together, suitably making the algorithms fully
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generic over all sequence types.
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The architecture is somewhat modeled after MPL which in turn is
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modeled after STL. It is code-named "fusion" because the library is
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the "fusion" of compile time metaprogramming with runtime programming.
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Pimpl Pointer
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:Author: Asger Mangaard
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:Review Manager: to be determined
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:Download:
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Boost Sandbox (http://boost-consulting.com/vault/) under pimpl_ptr.
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:Description:
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The pimpl idiom is widely used to reduce compile times and disable
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code coupling. It does so by moving private parts of a class from the
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.hpp file to the .cpp file.
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However, it's implementation can be tricky, and with many pitfalls
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(especially regarding memory management).
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The pimpl_ptr library is a single header file, implementing a special
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policy based smart pointer to greately ease the implementation of the
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pimpl idiom.
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Type_Traits (modification)
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--------------------------
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:Author: Alexander Nasonov
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:Review Manager: to be determined
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:Download:
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http://cpp-experiment.sourceforge.net/promote-20050917.tar.gz
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or http://cpp-experiment.sourceforge.net/promote-20050917/
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:Description:
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Proposal to add promote, integral_promotion and
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floating_point_promotion class templates to type_traits library.
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Alexander tried it on different compilers with various success:
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GNU/Linux (gentoo-hardened): gcc 3.3 and 3.4, Intel 7, 8 and 9
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Windows: VC7 free compiler
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Sparc Solaris: Sun C++ 5.3 and 5.7
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See comments at the beginning of promote_enum_test.cpp for what is broken.
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http://cpp-experiment.sourceforge.net/promote-20050917/libs/type_traits/test/promote_enum_test.cpp
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Alexander requests a fast-track review.
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Libraries under development
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===========================
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Property Tree
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:Author: Marcin Kalicinski
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:Download:
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Boost Sandbox Vault (http://boost-consulting.com/vault/)
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property_tree_rev3.zip
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Please let us know of any libraries you are currently
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developing that you intend to submit for review.
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