This is a reminder that formal review of the Boost.Convert library by Vladimir Batov has 3 more days and ends on May 2. There have only been a small number of reviews and this is the last weekend to review the library. I am hoping that programmers who may have been busy during the week in their work will find time this weekend for a review. The review period ends on Monday at midnight, so please get your review in before the review period ends. If you intend to do a review of the library but feel you would be late in doing so, please contact me about it. *************** * Its Purpose * *************** The library builds on the past boost::lexical_cast experience, then takes those conversion-related ideas further to suit better today's applications and programing needs. It still offers simple, minimal interface, familiar conversion behavior and additionally provides: * throwing and non-throwing conversion-failure behavior; * support for the default/fallback value to be returned when conversion fails; * two types of the conversion-failure check - basic/simple and better/safe; * formatting support based on the standard std::streams and std::stream-based manipulators (like std::hex, std::scientific, etc.); * support for different locales; * support for boost::range-compliant char and wchar_t-based containers; * no DefaultConstructibility requirement for the Target/Destination type; * consistent framework to uniformly incorporate any type-to-type conversions, extensibility and additional room to grow. With its present support for string-to-type and type-to-string conversions it is an essential tool for applications making extensive use of configuration or MS-Windows-Registry-style files or having to process/prepare considerable amounts of data in, say, XML, etc. More so, it is easily extendable to accommodate, specialize and uniformly deploy new user-defined type-to-type conversions. ******************* * Where to get it * ******************* You can get the library, using Subversion, from https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/convert. The HTML documentation is part of the distribution and can be found at libs/convert/index.html in the distribution above. ******************** * Writing a review * ******************** The reviews and all comments should be submitted to the developers list, and the email should have "[convert] Review" at the beginning of the subject line to make sure it's not missed. Please explicitly state in your review whether the library should be accepted. The general review checklist: - 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, every review should answer this question: - Do you think the library should be accepted as a Boost library? Be sure to say this explicitly so that your other comments don't obscure your overall opinion. Edward Diener, Review Manager