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Boost.Text is looking for a (mini-)review manager
by Zach Laine 07 Dec '22

07 Dec '22

I've made all the recommended changes to Boost.Text that came up in the review. Glen, the previous review manager, recommended a mini review of Boost.Text once I'd made those changes. If you'd like to manage the mini-review, please let me know. For everyone, including potential reviewers and review managers, here are the major changes: * All the specific review feedback issues have been addressed. * The string layer is now gone. * The text layer got a major re-work. It is now a set of template-based adaptors (basic_text<>, vs. a text typedef. etc.), which lets everyone get what they want. You can change the underlying storage type (including whatever allocator you prefer), select UTF-8 or UTF-16, and change the normalization form. Glen recommended I drop this layer, but the library is way less useful without this stuff, and these changes address all the concerns raised about the text layer in the review. The updated docs can be found here: https://tzlaine.github.io/text/doc/html/index.html Oh yeah, and I added concept constraints to the whole library when you build in C++20 mode. Zach

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[review][JSON] Review of JSON starts today: Sept 14 - Sept 23
by Pranam Lashkari 09 Aug '22

09 Aug '22

Boost formal review of Vinnie Falco and Krystian Stasiowski's library JSON starts today and will run for 10 days ending on 23 Sept 2020. Both of these authors have already developed a couple of libraries which are accepted in Boost(boost beast and Static String) This library focuses on a common and popular use-case for JSON. It provides a container to hold parsed and serialised JSON types. It provides more flexibility and better benchmark performance than its competitors. JSON highlights the following features in the documentation: - Fast compilation - Require only C++11 - Fast streaming parser and serializer - Easy and safe API with allocator support - Constant-time key lookup for objects - Options to allow non-standard JSON - Compile without Boost, define BOOST_JSON_STANDALONE - Optional header-only, without linking to a library (a point I would like to add in highlight: it has cool Jason logo 😝) To quickly understand and get the flavour of the library take a look at "Quick Look" <http://master.json.cpp.al/json/usage/quick_look.html> You can find the source code to be reviewed here: <https://github.com/CPPAlliance/json/tree/master> You can find the latest documentation here: <http://master.json.cpp.al/> Benchmarks are also given in the document which can be found here: <http://master.json.cpp.al/json/benchmarks.html> Some people have also given the early reviews, the thread can be found here: <https://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2020/09/249745.php> Please provide in your review information you think is valuable to understand your choice to ACCEPT or REJECT including JSON 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 here: <http://www.boost.org/community/reviews.html> Thank you for your effort in the Boost community. -- Thank you, Pranam Lashkari, https://lpranam.github.io/

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[container] Contributing 'stationary_vector' to Boost
by Mehrdad Niknami 13 Jun '22

13 Jun '22

Hi all, Happy new year! New mailing list member here. I've developed an STL-style stationary_vector class that retains elements in-place when growing. Very briefly, it is effectively a piecewise-contiguous vector, with the following advantages over vector: - Appending has O(1) overhead in the *worst* case (e.g., push_back() does not move elements) - Insertion and random-access can be done in parallel, as prior iterators & references remain valid This has a variety of benefits, including better UX (no "hiccups" due to reallocations), and the ability to simplify parallel processing of streaming data. It occurred to me the larger C++ community might find this useful. I was wondering if there would be interest in incorporating it into Boost.Container, and if so, what steps I could take to make that happen? I'm of course happy to discuss the design etc. with anyone who might be interested. Summary: https://github.com/mehrdadn/libvital/blob/master/doc/vital/container/statio… Implementation: https://github.com/mehrdadn/libvital/blob/master/include/vital/container/st… Thank you, Mehrdad

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Adding my sorting algorithm, ska_sort, to boost, attempt 2
by Malte Skarupke 24 Nov '21

24 Nov '21

Hi everyone, I started a discussion about this in October, but at the time the maintainer of the sort library was busy, then I was busy, so now it's January... I wrote a generalized version of radix sort a couple years ago and gave a talk about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqs87a_7zxw I would like to get a new version of that sorting algorithm into boost. It's faster than what I showed several years ago. It's also even more general and has a new interface that should be easier to extend. I uploaded the code here: https://github.com/skarupke/sort/tree/master The documentation is also already updated with new benchmark results. Let me know what's required to get this into boost. Would you like this in the form of a pull request? One of the big things that probably needs review is the interface, since radix sorting works differently than comparison based sorting. For most normal uses you just need to provide a sort key, but more complicated cases can get more complicated. I tried very hard to make everything easy, but I'd also be curious if others can come up with better ways of doing the interface. Thanks, Malte -- Malte Skarupke malteskarupke(a)fastmail.fm

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Adding CMakeLists.txt files
by Peter Dimov 31 May '21

31 May '21

I'm adding CMakeLists.txt files (mostly generated by `boostdep --cmake <libname>` to libraries that don't have one yet. Apologies (in advance) to all the maintainers for not going through the proper procedure, but this is much easier done in bulk (and order matters).

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Tool maintenance
by Edward Diener 27 May '21

27 May '21

There is a list of maintainers for Boost libraries at libs/maintainers.txt. Is there likewise a list of maintainers for Boost tools ? I have discovered a serious bug with BoostBook and nested namespaces, created an issue, but fear that no one will respond. I would like to e-mail anybody who is a maintainer for BoostBook who might be able to look at the issue and fix it, but there is no list of maintainers for Boost tools which I can find. The person who appears to have worked with BoostBook in the past, Daniel James, is no longer active with Boost so I have no idea who might be able to fix the issue.

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Develop Regression Tests Failing
by Tom Kent 26 May '21

26 May '21

Since sometime yesterday, all the gcc/clang develop runners I maintain (not sure about Visual Studio, that machine has been down for updates) have been failing, before the tests suite can even start running. Master still looks good. They end with the following: - bzip2 : yes [30] - lzma : yes [30] - zstd : no [30] - lzma : yes (cached) [30] - has_lzma_cputhreads builds : no [2] - auto_ptr : yes [3] error: Unable to find file or target named error: '/python//numpy' error: referred to from project at error: '../libs/python/build' I believe this is because of the python ( https://github.com/boostorg/python/pull/362) and build ( https://github.com/boostorg/build/pull/726) pull requests that were merged in around that time. The question is, why is this causing an issue....I have some vague memory of the regression test suite always using build from master? Am I remembering this correctly? If so, I think we may need to back out the python change until build's develop branch merges to master? I'm seeing this across multiple docker images, one that has been rather stable is this: https://hub.docker.com/layers/teeks99/boost-cpp-docker/clang-11/images/sha2… running with this user-config.jam: https://github.com/teeks99/boost-cpp-docker/blob/master/clang-11/user-confi… and numpy installed for both python 2 and 3. Thoughts? Tom

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[boostbook] Doxygen nested namespaces entities not being handled
by Edward Diener 20 May '21

20 May '21

I am seeing an issue where nested namespace doxygen documented entities are not being generated by BoostBook for the final documentation of a reference section in a library's documentation. I am using the quickbook -> boostbook -> html set of tools in the doc jamfile. If I just use doxygen directly to generate the documentation the nested namespace entities are there, so this appears to be a BoostBook problem. Has this problem always existed ? Has anyone else ever encountered it ? I first reported this as a Boost Build issue at https://github.com/bfgroup/b2/issues/18, but then reported this at https://github.com/boostorg/boostbook/issues/10.

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Boost Governance?
by René Ferdinand Rivera Morell 18 May '21

18 May '21

A disclaimer: I write this solely as a Boost Library author. And not in any other capacity or representing any other interest. It's now been at least a year since Boost switched from the Software Freedom Conservancy to the Boost Foundation for its governance organization. But have people noticed any difference? Did you know that switch happened? Did you know that they held an election for the Board of Directors and for the Officers? Do you know when that election happened? Do you know who got elected? Do you know how they were selected? Do you know what their responsibilities are? Do you know what their bylaws are? Do you know their financials? More importantly: Did you answer "no" to any of those questions? As a library author, I can say I definitely answered no to many of those questions. This is a problem. As authors, without asking, we should know those answers from the organization that governs our work. We should have input into how that organization governs. In other words, we deserve open and transparent governance; not the closed and opaque status quo. -- -- René Ferdinand Rivera Morell -- Don't Assume Anything -- No Supone Nada -- Robot Dreams - http://robot-dreams.net

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Re: [boost] Boost Governance?
by Glen Fernandes 18 May '21

18 May '21

Rene wrote: > It's now been at least a year since Boost switched from the Software Freedom Conservancy to the Boost Foundation for its governance organization. 13:14 <glenfe> @grafikrobot The Software Freedom Conservancy never governed the Boost C++ Libraries, nor did the Boost Steering committee, nor does the Boost Foundation. Only the Boost community does that. 13:15 <grafikrobot> Hopefully you'll clarify that on the dev list. i.e. The "Boost Steering Committee"[1] became "Boost Foundation"[2]. [1] https://sites.google.com/a/boost.org/steering/home [2] https://sites.google.com/a/boost.org/steering/boost-foundation It still deals with the C++Now conference, providing the mailing lists, hosting, etc. But any decision making and governance of the Boost libraries is still the domain of the Boost community (i.e. you, me, and the other Boost library authors and maintainers). Glen

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