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[data-structure] uncompleted data-structure/Algorithm projects
by Prabhat Kumar 23 Feb '14

23 Feb '14

Hello, I'm new to boost community and I don't know where I can find uncompleted projects on data-structure/Algorithms to work on. Please tell where I can find them and how to contribute to those projects. Thanks, Prabhat Kumar

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Boost.Odeint GSoc 2014
by Animesh Gaitonde 23 Feb '14

23 Feb '14

Hi everyone , I am Animesh Gaitonde , 4th year student from Bits-Pilani,India.My major is Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering and I am interested in contributing to Boost during GSoC 2014.I have gone through the different GSoC projects and idea's on Boost' C++ Libraries' homepage for the Summer of Code(SoC). I found the numerical library Boost.Odeint interesting.I have completed a course on Numerical Analysis and also used Boost.Odeint for algorithmic assignments.Moreover,I have been using C++ for around 3 years and I am familiar with STL and to some extent with numerical algorithms. I have gone through the documentation of Odeint and learnt about its structure.I solved a few examples and used different explicit Steppers for solving the ODE's.Currently since Odeint supports only explicit methods it would be better to expand it by adding implicit routines and also to make the existing implicit methods(Euler and Rosenbrock) independent of Boost.uBlas to have greater flexibility.I am learning about the different numeric algorithms for solving ODE's,their implementation in Odeint and along with it solving the ordinary differential equations whose solution cannot be determined analytically. I would like to get in touch with Mario Mulansky or Karsten Ahnert , the mentors for this project to provide me with further pointers for developing the proposal and any tasks which they would like to give me so that I get familiar with Odeint. Regards Animesh Gaitonde 4th year Undergraduate Bits-Pilani,Goa Campus

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[hash] Type trait for hash functions that are well distributed.
by Daniel James 23 Feb '14

23 Feb '14

Hi, I'm thinking about adding a type trait for hash functions to indicate if it's appropriate to use them with a "power of 2" hash table. This would let hash tables be more efficient when using an appropriate hash function, especially when compiling for 64 bit. Any thoughts on how this should be designed? I have a rough design in mind (similar to the allocator_traits propagation traits), but would like to hear other's ideas first. thanks, Daniel

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[testing] No test results?
by Andrey Semashev 23 Feb '14

23 Feb '14

Hi, I'm trying to see test results, but see this error instead: Error extracting file: The specified zipfile was not found. The page is: http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/summary.html The same error is for the master branch. Is this a known problem?

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[regression] Where's boost/assert.hpp ??
by Rene Rivera 22 Feb '14

22 Feb '14

While making changes to the regression testing tools to deal with the new locations I ran into a severe blocker. It seems that nothing compiles any more because somehow "boost/assert.hpp" is no longer around and just about all Boost code depends on that one file. Where did the file go? And if was intentionally removed, why wasn't all the uses fixed by now? What's going on? -- -- Rene Rivera -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Robot Dreams - http://robot-dreams.net -- rrivera/acm.org (msn) - grafikrobot/aim,yahoo,skype,efnet,gmail

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Review Request: Boost.Align
by Glen Fernandes 22 Feb '14

22 Feb '14

I'd like to request a formal review of Boost.Align Description: Boost.Align is a tiny library that provides alignment related utilities that several Boost libraries (Boost.Log, Boost.Smart_Ptr, etc.) re-implement themselves. Specifically it provides a function for pointer alignment (boost::align, as many vendors do not provide the C++11 std::align), functions for aligned allocation (boost::aligned_alloc, and boost:: aligned_free), and a class template for a C++ allocator that respects type (or minimum) alignment (boost::aligned_ that can serve as a replacement for std::allocator that works with over-aligned types). Source code: https://github.com/glenfe/align Documentation: http://glenfe.com/align/doc/align.html Satisfies following requirements for a fast-track review: 1. The component must be small. 2. The technique must be already in use in Boost libraries and the new component provides a common implementation. 3. A full Boost-conformant implementation is available. Thanks, Glen

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Developing a (nearly new) library possibly to be proposed for Boost
by Paul A. Bristow 22 Feb '14

22 Feb '14

I'm revisiting https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/StartModDev to try set up a new library. I've started by trying to use the simple 'library' I created over a year ago using a previous version of this document. Is it intended that users should place their 'Boost-Wannabe' libraries in the modular-boost in /libs/mylibrary as other real Boost libraries ? When I assumed this, I found it impossible to GIT clone my existing 'simple' library into the /libs folder as it is not empty, so the 2nd line git clone <mailto:git@github.com:Beman/simple.git> git@github.com:Beman/simple.git fails. This feels the right place for Or is recommended to use some folder like sandbox/libs/mylibrary/ for one's stuff, including of course a sandbox/libs/mylibrary/include/boost/mylibrary/ to hold my .hpp files? Either way I presume I need a link from modular-boost/boost to point to sandbox/libs/mylibrary/include/ Should I provide a symbolic link /D or a hardlink (as b2 headers creates)? C:\Windows\system32>mklink /D I:\modular-boost\boost\ mylibrary I:\sandbox\libs\ mylibrary \include\boost\ mylibrary symbolic link created for I:\modular-boost\boost\ mylibrary <<===>> I:\sandbox\libs\ mylibrary \include\boost\ mylibrary seems to work. Or do I add this folder to the Include directory list? (Tiresome) Suggestions? Paul --- Paul A. Bristow, Prizet Farmhouse, Kendal LA8 8AB UK +44 1539 561830 07714330204 pbristow(a)hetp.u-net.com

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Gsoc project discussion
by Abhishek Kumar 21 Feb '14

21 Feb '14

Hi, I am interested in participating gsoc (google summer of code) this year with Boost. I went through the ideas page and at the bottom section i found some ideas related to data-structures and algorithms. But the page said that students have to propose their own project using the ideas listed there. I need to discuss what things i can do related to the ideas as my gsoc project..? Frankly, at present i dont have any idea on what to propose, how to propose etc.. any help on this would be appreciated..! Thanks! Abhishek Kumar

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Project Idea for 2014 GSoC
by Prabhat Kumar 21 Feb '14

21 Feb '14

Hello, In forthcoming google summer of code I'm thinking of implementing *Suffix Array* data structure. As a data structure, it is widely used in areas such as data compression, bioinformatics and, in general, in any area that deals with strings and string matching problems. So I think It would be very cool to add this data structure in Boost Libraries. Here is some brief description of some method which I have planned so far :- 1) Creation of Suffix array in O(n log n ), there is a relatively easy implementation in O(n (log n)^2) using STL's sort function, but radix sort we can achieve O(n log n) .... :) 2) Longest common prefix of any two suffix in O (log n) 3) Total distinct substring of given string in O(n log n) I'll be glad to hear some suggestion. Prabhat Kumar Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad , India

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[log] Default logging configuration for trivial logger
by Ben Pope 21 Feb '14

21 Feb '14

Hi, I'm using the trivial logging interface, but I need to tweak the default configuration. I want to be able to flush after every log entry, and I also want to be able to do file rolling. As far as I can tell, in order to configure it this way, I pretty much need to configure the whole thing from scratch including formatters, but I can't find the code that sets up the default logger to replicate it. Any pointers? Cheers, Ben

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