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feature for C++ standards compliance
by Robert Ramey 28 Feb '21

28 Feb '21

The serialization library is compatible with C++03 (and likely 98). And is tested regularly with C++ compilers with the -std switch set to this mode. The recent changes to the math library have broken about 5 tests in the serialization library. Since this breakage is in a few tests only and not in the library itself, I'd like to suppress these tests when the being tested with a C++03 compiler. I've suppressed tests which are conditional on C++ features which are not supported and this has worked well for my purposes. I'd like to do the same for a couple of tests which are conditional on usage of the math library and standards versions < C++11. Any B2/CMake experts want to help an old guy out?

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New PropertyTree maintainer
by Glen Fernandes 27 Feb '21

27 Feb '21

Richard Hodges has kindly agreed to become the new maintainer of Boost.PropertyTree. Many thanks, Richard. Please update meta/libraries.json accordingly. Glen

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Google Summer of Code follow-up
by Radu Cosma 26 Feb '21

26 Feb '21

Dear all, A couple of weeks ago I wrote an email inquiring about how to approach applying to contribute to your project through the GSoC opportunity. I did not seem to get any responses, is this the right place to ask? If not, could you please point me to a contact person that I can talk to? I am very interesting in contributing to this project and would really like to know how I can help. I am extremely familiar with the entirety of the C++20 standard, besides some final template (and concepts) features that I am still learning about, and would love the challenge of using those skills in the context of contributing to the Boost libraries. Thank you in advance and have a nice day! Kind regards, Radu Cosma

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Introduction
by Samrat Patel 25 Feb '21

25 Feb '21

Hello Boost C++ Community, I am Samrat from Delhi Technology University and currently, I am pursuing my bachelor's in Computer Engineering(CoE). I have 3 years of experience in C++. I am extremely eager and excited about contributing to various projects of Boost C++. I am willing to participate in GSOC'21 with Boost C++. I would feel indebted if you could guide me in this regard. Regards Samrat Patel

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property_tree in need of a maintainer
by Richard Hodges 25 Feb '21

25 Feb '21

Dear all, I am offering to become the/a maintainer of property_tree as part of my work for the C++ Alliance. Sincerely, -- Richard Hodges hodges.r(a)gmail.com office: +442032898513 home: +376841522 mobile: +376380212

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Reminder: Describe needs a review manager
by Peter Dimov 25 Feb '21

25 Feb '21

This is a reminder that my library Describe https://github.com/pdimov/describe https://pdimov.github.io/describe/doc/html/describe.html needs a review manager. Describe is a library that allows programmers to annotate their classes (and enumerations) in order to enable simple reflection. It provides a very important fundament on which other libraries can build upon to provide automatic support for user-defined types. For example, given an annotated type, Boost.JSON can automatically provide conversions from/to json::value. Boost.ContainerHash can automatically provide a hash function hash_value for the type. Boost.Serialization can automatically provide serialization support. See the examples: https://pdimov.github.io/describe/doc/html/describe.html#example_to_json https://pdimov.github.io/describe/doc/html/describe.html#example_from_json https://pdimov.github.io/describe/doc/html/describe.html#example_serializat… Other JSON (and serialization) libraries already offer a similar mechanism, e.g. https://github.com/nlohmann/json#arbitrary-types-conversions. But since each library has its own private way to annotate types, a programmer needs to repeat the type annotations for every library he wants his type to be known to. This is unnecessary and undesirable, and a standard mechanism to describe types avoids it. Describe is intended to be this standard mechanism, and I believe that we need it in Boost sooner rather than later. Thanks in advance to whoever volunteers.

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Re: [boost] Reminder: Describe needs a review manager
by Bjorn Reese 25 Feb '21

25 Feb '21

On 2021-02-23 19:56, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote: > Describe is a library that allows programmers to annotate their classes > (and enumerations) in order to enable simple reflection. It provides a > very important fundament on which other libraries can build upon to > provide automatic support for user-defined types. How does it differ from Boost.Fusion?

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[boost-ext] Looking for Review Manager/s
by Krzysztof Jusiak 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

Hi, I just wanted to share, potentially useful for the Boost and C++ community, libraries and ask if anyone would be willing to become a Review Manager for any of them? [boost-ext] (https://github.com/boost-ext) is a collection of C++ libraries with aspirations to be included in Boost. Libraries can be characterized by: * Modern C++ (>= C++14) * Header/Single Module only * No dependencies ATM, [boost::ext] consists of four core libraries: * DI - Dependency Injection Library overview: standard: C++14 single header with no dependencies (neither STL nor Boost is required) release: 1.2.0 (first release - 2014) key features: - supports macro-free constructor injection - supports templates injection - quick compilation-times - highly optimized code generation try it online: https://godbolt.org/z/5qTKhf source code: https://github.com/boost-ext/di documentation: https://boost-ext.github.io/di/ * SML - State Machine Library overview: standard: C++14 single header with no dependencies (neither STL nor Boost is required) release: 1.1.4 (first release - 2016) key features: - much faster compilation-times than Boost.MSM (up to 60x faster) - highly optimized and customizable code generation - suitable for embedded systems try it online: https://godbolt.org/z/y99L50 source code: https://github.com/boost-ext/sml documentation: https://boost-ext.github.io/sml/ * UT - Unit Testing Framework overview: standard: C++20 single header with no dependencies (STL required) release: 1.1.8 (first release - 2019) key features: - macro-free - minimal boilerplate - fast compilation-times and execution try it online: https://godbolt.org/z/Jqb5Ye source code: https://github.com/boost-ext/ut documentation: https://boost-ext.github.io/ut * TE - Run-time polymorphism (type erasure) library overview: standard: C++17 single header with no dependencies (STL required) release: - key features: - simple interface - highly optimized code generation try it online: https://godbolt.org/z/xY9MEq source code: https://github.com/boost-ext/te documentation: https://github.com/boost-ext/te All libraries (except TE) were successfully deployed in the production systems. Some, such as DI and SML are used by well known/big IT companies as well. If anyone is interested in becoming a Review Manager for any of the libraries, I'd really appreciate it and I'll more than happy to address any issues/requests before the review as well as help with any process-related tasks. Thank you very much, -Kris

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Getting stated with boost and CMake
by pbristow＠hetp.u-net.com 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

Having spent a decade watching the Cmake versus bjam/b2 battle, I had thought it wise to wait until the dust has settled. It would appear that the enthusiasm for CMake and Boost is much greater among consumers than producers ☹ But recently I have been working on a project that is possible Boost library and thought that I would dip my toe in the water. After some research, I am still puzzled how I should replace a simple b2/bjam program (say a classic “hello World”) that is run like this \example > b2 -a toolset=msvc,gcc,clang cxxstd=14 release > my_log.log The jamfile contains run hello_world.cpp ; # Simplest hello_world, no other includes apart from iostream. And the b2 run .log contains some outputs of "Hello world" and 3 nice **passed** lines and ...updated 3(?) targets..., one for each compiler (and version too, perhaps with some potentially using build info too), and return exit_success value. (I also would expect to get a simple setup to run a test using the /included version of unit_test_framework. Trying to walk before I fall over running, I have avoided any pre-compiler libraries, at least at first.) After some research (getting as far as generating a Visual Studio project, where I can intervene manually to build and run my hello_world program), I am still unclear how to replicate this b2 test to end with a .exe run and some log file with pass/fail indications. I am of course building on Windows 10 with three recent versions of MSVC, GCC and Clang compilers working, and in my bjam/b2 user-config.jam. Advice from less-than-novice CMakers most welcome. Thank you. Paul

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GSoC 2021 new policies
by Pranam Lashkari 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

Hello, To all the potential mentors and students this year GSoC is different from all the previous seasons, so whenever you are planning/proposing/adding a project in GSoC this year, keep the following things in mind: *Smaller project size** - *all students participating in the 2021 program will be working on a 175 hour project (instead of a 350 hr project). *Shortened coding period* - the *coding period will be 10 weeks* with a lot more flexibility for the mentor and student to decide together how they want to spread the work out over the summer. *2 evaluations (instead of 3)* - There will be an evaluation after 5 weeks and the final evaluation will take place after the 10th week. -- Thank you, Pranam Lashkari, https://lpranam.github.io/

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