From: Richard Hodges
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 at 23:53
Subject: [Boost] [Describe] Review starts Monday 1st March 2021 - 10th
March 2021
To: boost@lists.boost.org List
The Boost formal review of the Describe starts Monday, taking place from
March 1st, 2021 to March 10th, 2021 (inclusive).
The library is authored by Peter Dimov.
Documentation: https://pdimov.github.io/describe/doc/html/describe.html
Source: https://github.com/pdimov/describe
The library provides a simple means of providing reflection for structures
and enums in C++.
The documentation contains a number of common motivating examples,
including:
- A universal print function
https://pdimov.github.io/describe/doc/html/describe.
html#example_print_function
- JSON serialisation
https://pdimov.github.io/describe/doc/html/describe.html#example_to_json
Please provide in your review information you think is valuable to
understand your choice to ACCEPT or REJECT including Describe as a
Boost library. Please be explicit about your decision (ACCEPT or REJECT).
Some other questions you might want to consider answering:
- 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 which compiler(s)? 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?
More information about the Boost Formal Review Process can be found
at: http://www.boost.org/community/reviews.html
The review is open to anyone who is prepared to put in the work of
evaluating and reviewing the library. Prior experience in contributing to
Boost reviews is not a requirement.
Thank you for your efforts in the Boost community. They are very much
appreciated.
Richard Hodges
- review manager of the proposed Boost.Describe library
Peter is often available in the CppLang Slack #boost channel should you
require any clarification not covered by the documentation, as am I.
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