February 2014 - Boost - lists.preview.boost.org

How to add a library to the BoostBook Documentation Subset?
by Fletcher, John P 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

I have taken over the task of maintaining Boost Phoenix. I want to start expanding the documentation which already uses Quickbook. The BoostBook Documentation Subset here includes a lot of libraries but not Boost Phoenix. http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/doc/html/index.html How do I get Boost Phoenix added, and are there any requirements for the documentation which need to be observed? Thanks John Fletcher

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Building a new boost library in Google summer program!
by Khaled Ammar 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

Hi everyone, I'm new to this list so please excuse my lack of experience. I'm interested to build a boost library as part of Google Summer of Code ( http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014) Could you please advice me who should I contact? -- Thanks, -Khaled Ammar PhD student at Uwaterloo www.khaledammar.com

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Warning.. Regression testing changes forthcoming..
by Rene Rivera 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

We, mostly Ahmed Charles, will be moving the regression and release script code to independent git repos (i.e. moving the out of the boost super-repo). The first step is to copy the git histories. This requires that NO ONE make changes to the regression and release code. This first step will happen tonight at 8-12 pm PST. Further actions for testers to take will follow in the next 2-3 days. -- -- 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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Where is boost/detail/limits.hpp used?
by Peter Dimov 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

I'm playing with a dependency checker I wrote that tells me what Boost module depends on what. Starting with the basics: Dependencies for config: detail: boost/detail/endian.hpp A dependency from config to detail is not a good thing because detail depends on too much. boost/detail/endian.hpp is now only a forwarding header to predef, so it could and probably should be moved to predef, which seems to depend on nothing. But I was wondering what in config uses endian.hpp. Turns out the only use is in boost/detail/limits.hpp, a file that has been put into config for some reason. I can't find anything in config or in Boost that uses this file. What is its purpose?

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[Boost-users] User/Owner Information And in Boost File System
by MANTOSH KUMAR 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

Hi All, Point::1 ====== boost::filesystem library is great. However I found that boost::filesystem has no interface to fetch about the owner(userid/groupid) of a particular file. "stat()" system call has been provided by POSIX compliance system to fetch this information. I am pretty sure that this must have been thought by boost community while designing boost::filesystem library and there would be valid reason not to provide such interface. However I just wanted to know the thought of boost community. Point::2 ====== The following is the code snippet: std::vector<boost::filesystem::path> vec; boost::filesystem::recursive_directory_iterator rbgnitr(p); boost::filesystem::recursive_directory_iterator renditr; for(boost::filesystem::recursive_directory_iterator itr = rbgnitr; itr != renditr; ++itr) { v.push_back(*itr); } In the above "rbgnitr" does represent the starting node in a directory. However It looked bit strange while "renditr" for end node(one beyond end). The end node renditr" is basically empty instance of class "recursive_directory_iterator"......Just wanted to know why this was designed in this way..... Thanks & Regards, Mantosh Kumar India

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Boost.Log crash - question on consequences of misconfiguration
by Pieter 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

LS, My question regarding Boost.Log is the following: could anything been said on what to expect when asking Boost.Log to write to a non-existing directory on a read-only drive? Does it keep trying to write or give up when the directory cannot be created, and would the user be informed in such a case? Background: today I ran into a problem using Boost.Log. I configured both a Console and a TextFile backend (both autoflushing) but happened to configure the latter wrongly- setting the location of the file on a not-existing directory on a read-only drive. This caused a program crash under certain circumstances - but no problems under other circumstances (related to the configuration of the application which should not be relevant here) - when it did crash, this happened after a few messages were logged. Crash happened shortly before program termination but before the main() function was terminated (for a while I thought I was seeing the problem described in the docs regarding the boost.filesystem related problem and it took me a while to learn this was not the case). Pieter

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GSOC 2014
by Petru Trimbitas 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

Hello, I saw that boost took part in gsoc 2013, will it take part also in 2014? Thanks

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Boost.Mixin library preliminary reviews
by Borislav Stanimirov 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

Hello, Boost.Mixin is a library I'm developing and I intend to submit it for review by the end of the month (most likely on Feb, 23). Source is here: https://github.com/iboB/boost.mixin Docs are here: http://ibob.github.io/boost.mixin/ There have already been two discussion on the subject: here: http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2013/01/200598.php and here: http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2013/07/205184.php They showed at least moderate interest in the library. Also I had a lecture about the library back in November on Open Fest 2013 Bulgaria (Unfortunately it's in Bulgarian. If you understand Bulgarian, you can find it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sTX8lUdp1c ) The feedback from the lecture has been very positive. I'm going to complete the documentation in the following day or two (it's 90% done as of now) and then focus on docs polish, like typos, structure, etc, and fixing any bugs that might arise. The library is being used in two active closed source projects, so any major bugs are highly unlikely. Currently, apart from jamfiles, there are project files for Visual Studio 2008 and 2012, QtCreator, and Code::Blocks in the repo for your convenience. Before I submit it for a formal review, It would be great if I could have some preliminary ones. Anyone is welcome with questions, suggestions, tips, and comments Thanks, -- Borislav

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[predef] Error in sparc.h
by Adam Wulkiewicz 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

Hi, There is an error in predef/architecture/sparc.h (http://github.com/boostorg/predef/blob/develop/include/boost/predef/archite…) in line 40 the operand of && is missing. Should there be something added there or should the operator be deleted? Should I create a ticket? Regards, Adam

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[githelp] git pull --recurse-submodules equivalent?
by Rene Rivera 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

In trying to set up my ISP account to do testing report generation I ran into a rather old git version, 1.7.2.5. Which doesn't support the "--recurse-submodules" option of pull. What is the equivalent for a pre 1.7.3 git? -- -- 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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