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[GSoC18] Astronomy Project Proposal
by Pranam Lashkari 23 Mar '18

23 Mar '18

Hello, Boost community, I was in constant contact with Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira talking about this project. I have made this proposal for the same. Hope you go through the proposal. I will appreciate your feedback to improve proposal and the betterment of the project. Proposal: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZdS__MZr6cSJggkK0P_w2jXQQeRWubPk Thank you, Pranam Lashkari

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[gsoc18] Draft proposal for Project 1.1: Add statistics and machine learning functions
by Dattatreya Mohapatra 23 Mar '18

23 Mar '18

Hi, I have submitted a draft proposal for the above-mentioned project on the GSoC website. I have been in contact with the mentors of the project (cc'ed) for the past couple of weeks, working on their feedback and improving the draft. *I request the community to review the draft and suggest any additions/improvements as feedback.* I have put a link to my competency test implementation in the proposal. Thanks and regards, Dattatreya Mohapatra‌

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[gsoc2018]
by Akshay Raut 22 Mar '18

22 Mar '18

Hello Boost community. I had already introduced myself. I am Akshay, computer science undergrad 3rd year. This is my project proposal on Boost.Real project. Please go through this and suggest changes if any required. Thank you all much. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W4V4tvhl-6ZyK4Jq_NLcd1HAoOP5AWcrIU8dw3Q…

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GSOC 18 Enhancing Boost.Intrusive Library
by Athul Pai 22 Mar '18

22 Mar '18

Hello! I am Athul pai a 3rd year B.TECH student . It would be great if I get some feedback on my proposal. The link for the proposal is below Proposal <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rmvzq4nqsu-qEfiTbhWhSxPI31RVHoYGadbMJ7u…> Regards Athul

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[gsoc18]Mentor search for Boost.Geometry project :Similarity between geometries
by Abhinav Siddharth 22 Mar '18

22 Mar '18

*Hello, My name is Abhinav and I am currently a Btech second-year student of IIT Patna, India. Recently, I was going through the project ideas listed on the Wiki page of Boost and I am very interested to work on the project idea- "Similarity between geometries". I am very keen to share my ideas on the project and I would give a detailed description of this very idea in my proposal shortly. I sincerely look forward to your reply. Thanks. Regards, Abhinav Siddharth *

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Fwd: Fwd: [gsoc18] Boost.Detour & Mentor Search
by Michael Kiros 22 Mar '18

22 Mar '18

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Kiros <michaelakiros(a)gmail.com> Date: 22 March 2018 at 10:16 Subject: Re: [boost] Fwd: [gsoc18] Boost.Detour & Mentor Search To: Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira <vini.ipsmaker(a)gmail.com> What's the proper interception place then? If the game's main function was called main and your hook function was called _main_hook, then you'd need a way to get your function inside of the same address space of game's process. So that would mean DLL injection, adding your DLL to the list of loaded modules etc. What's the workflow? For software where the source code is available you'd simply compile your executable with the hooks and you wouldn't have to go through the problem of having your shared library/DLL getting loaded by the process. On 21 March 2018 at 23:25, Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira < vini.ipsmaker(a)gmail.com> wrote: > 2018-03-22 1:16 GMT-03:00 Michael Kiros <michaelakiros(a)gmail.com>: > >> That repo represents the last, latest state of the repository [...] >> > > Thanks. > > [...] Like you said, it's easier to work with DLLs because their functions >> are exported so you'd just located the address >> of the function using the export symbol table and the Windows API >> functions/POSIX equivalent. >> > > I was more concerned with the separation of library/application when I > made the question. > > Suppose I want to change Tibia to cheat the game. There is a main function > there on the executable (it's not _your main_). What's the proper > interception place then? What's the workflow? Open the executable using > your executable and transfer control flow once you prepare the hooks? > > The 'hook types' that would be required would be specializations of a >> single type and each type >> would represent a different approach to hooking a function. >> > > Thanks. > > > -- > Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira > https://vinipsmaker.github.io/ >

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Fwd: [gsoc18] Boost.Detour & Mentor Search
by Michael Kiros 22 Mar '18

22 Mar '18

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Kiros <michaelakiros(a)gmail.com> Date: 15 March 2018 at 02:30 Subject: Re: [boost] [gsoc18] Boost.Detour & Mentor Search To: David Bellot <david.bellot(a)gmail.com> Hi David, I have written the draft of a proposal to add a new library (or work on it during the Summer of Code 2018). It's a proposal for the addition of Boost.Hook, a function hooking and control flow augmentation library. It's something I've worked on a lot in the past and would like to incorporate into Boost so that both I and others have a centralized, agreed way of taking an approach to function hooking. I also have plans of integrating it with Boost.Process and some memory mapping libraries from Boost so that there are fewer "third-party dependencies". Here's a link to the draft: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nh436adVvIHC_ AXTAJi6Wr_uLpM4-SSc/view?usp=sharing I would really like to know the feedback to this and if anyone's interesting in mentoring me during the build up of this project. It's a very interesting, useful topic. I can assure anyone that. On 14 March 2018 at 07:01, David Bellot <david.bellot(a)gmail.com> wrote: > an explanation of the idea with examples would be good. > Please follow the instructions on https://github.com/boostorg > /boost/wiki/Boost-Google-Summer-of-Code-2018 > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Michael Kiros <michaelakiros(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Would the proposal be in the form of code or just an explanation of the >> idea? >> >> On Mar 14, 2018 7:41 AM, "David Bellot" <david.bellot(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Michael, >> >> as it is a new project in Boost, ideally you want to write a first draft >> proposal and submit it to this list too (via a link please, do not attach >> document). >> >> I'm sure someone would be interested in mentoring for GSoC especially if >> the idea is brilliantly explained. >> As we have a few days left before submission to Google, I encourage you >> to start working on it right now. >> >> Cheers, >> David >> >> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 8:19 AM, Michael Kiros via Boost < >> boost(a)lists.boost.org> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm a C++ developer and have been developing in C++ for over 6 years now >>> in >>> my personal time. I wanted to accomplish two things with this post: >>> >>> 1. Propose the idea of boost::detour >>> 2. Find a mentor in the process >>> >>> Boost.Detour is not something new that I'd like to implement but a >>> concept >>> in programming that I have been using for a very long time now and would >>> love to have it easily accessible with the inclusion of a simple >>> <boost/detour.hpp>. The idea is to have function hooking easily >>> accessible >>> to everyone using C++. Though it may seem like a niche feature, function >>> hooking is more commonly used than most people think (e.g. modifying >>> binaries after compilation for feature addition, reverse engineering >>> proprietary software). It's a beautiful concept when you see it working. >>> >>> In the process I need a mentor to guide me through the process of putting >>> down my ideas to paper and implementing them according to the standards >>> that Boost holds. This includes replacing components from my library with >>> Boost concepts (e.g. boost::process). >>> >>> I'm also a student at Texas Tech University studying Computer Science. >>> >>> Can't wait to hear from someone. >>> >>> Michael >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman >>> /listinfo.cgi/boost >>> >> >> >> >

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[gsoc18] Project proposal for Boost.Geometry (set operations on boxes)
by Tinko Bartels 22 Mar '18

22 Mar '18

Hi, one week ago I posted a mail searching for mentors for a Boost.Geometry idea about implementing the basic set operations (difference, union_, sym_difference) for <box,box,Collection<box> and I was happy to see interest voiced by Vissarion and Adam. I have now completed my proposal with a slightly extended version of that idea and I'd be thankful for any comments: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gNtqTbkDVXp9dPCRZZut4bBgjvQwJNdoV-EJOrE… I've also improved my proof of concept/self-designed competency test, added a check for correctness and committed it to the github repository: https://github.com/tinko92/boost_geometry_difference_demo It now includes a patch for the boost_1_66_0 source tree, that allows tests of that implementation with the proper call: boost::geometry::difference(box1,box2,box_vector) (hopefully, if I didn't break anything I didn't see) without breaking it for other geometries. This was tested on GCC (main.cpp can be built if the folder tree from the repository is copied to some directory XYZ with the command g++ main.cpp -o main -IXYZ), VC9 and VC15. Thanks in advance for any comments on the proposal or the preliminary implementation of difference. Best, Tinko -- Sent from: http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/Boost-Dev-f2600599.html

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[GSoC 2018] Want to contribute to Boost.SafeFloat
by Recolic Keghart 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

Dear boost community, I'm Bensong Liu, a second year undergraduate student. I'm interested in Boost.SafeFloat and willing to contribute to this project. I've finished all of the `Programming competency test` and I'm still working on the proposal(draft shared). Then how should I contact my mentor, and how should I submit my [solution to tests](https://recolic.net/res/tmp/note-deploy-key-for-gsoc.sh)? Thanks for your guidance. Thanks, Bensong Liu

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[gsoc2018]Project Proposal for Boost.SafeFloat
by Saga _-_ 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

Hi everyone, This is a draft of my proposal for Boost.SafeFloat: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XQRygvTYPXKnWU0MW7XoL5YWJGLpI fIm4VmJVKj1EmY/edit?usp=sharing Please take a look at it and share your opinion about how I could improve it. Thanks in advance for your time and effort. -- Have a nice day Sagar Tewari

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