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Re: [boost] Is Boost dead? [Re: Anyone is interested in being
by Sebastian Theophil 09 May '14

09 May '14

> The dev list is down about 30% 2011 onwards as against before 2011. > > Monthly commits to Boost are about 500 per month since 2011 as > compared to about 1000 per month before 2011. > Niall, don't forget that the marginal usefulness of every new contribution might be shrinking. Many Boost libraries were essential for C++03 users but become less useful once you've migrated to C++11. They were testing grounds for new standard features. The better the standard library, and the better the programming language itself, the less need there will be for an extensive library as boost. Seen through that lens, a dying boost library might be a good sign. Though I don't actually believe the dying part yet. There are still many useful libraries in boost that haven't made it into the standard. There are even more libraries I'd like to be included in boost, thus becoming default choices, even if they can never make it into the standard. Regards Sebastian -- Dr. Sebastian Theophil | stheophil(a)think-cell.com Senior Software Engineer We are looking for C++ Developers: http://www.think-cell.com/career think-cell Software GmbH | Chausseestr. 8/E | 10115 Berlin | Germany http://www.think-cell.com | phone +49 30 666473-10 | US phone +1 800 891 8091 Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg, HRB 85229 | European Union VAT Id DE813474306 Directors: Dr. Markus Hannebauer, Dr. Arno Sch?dl

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[config] Should BOOST_NO_CXX11_ALLOCATOR be undefined for libcpp without std=c++11
by Glen Fernandes 09 May '14

09 May '14

I observed the absence of BOOST_NO_CXX11_ALLOCATOR with clang and libc++ without -std=c++11. Is this intended? Right now BOOST_NO_CXX11_ALLOCATOR's absence is (in my view) an indication of whether C++11 allocators, including class template std::allocator_traits, are supported - and without -std=c++11 neither could be. Glen

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[Align] and [smart_ptr] local copy of modular boost not updating correctly.
by Fletcher, John P 08 May '14

08 May '14

Boost smart_ptr has changed to use the new library boost align which has just passed its review. Unfortunately this change does not automatically carry forward into my local copy of modular boost. I have a directory libs/align but it is empty. What do I need to do to get this new library (and any other new submodules) into my local copy? Thanks John

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JSON Archives for Boost.Serialization
by Matt Calabrese 08 May '14

08 May '14

I'm looking into implementing JSON archives to be used with Boost.Serialization in a manner similar to the xml archives. After a quick search I see that others have worked on this (2008 GSOC project?), though there is nothing currently in Boost that I see. Is there any existing work on this that is up somewhere before I implement my own from scratch? -- -Matt Calabrese

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[thread] Request review of new synchronisation object, boost::permit<>
by Niall Douglas 07 May '14

07 May '14

Dear Boost, Review and commentary upon a proposed new Boost object, boost::permit<> is invited. A quick description of their purpose: "Permits come in two variants, consuming and non-consuming. There is always a one-to-one relationship between the granting of a permit and the receiving of that permit, the only difference with the non-consuming variant is that the permit is automatically regranted as soon as it is consumed. This leads to the only API difference to condition variables: permit<consuming=true> provides notify_one() but not notify_all(), whilst permit<consuming=false> provides neither and you will have to use grant() and revoke() instead. When deciding to substitute permits for condition variables, you will need to decide carefully which kind of permit is the correct substitute." "Permit objects are actually very similar to a void promise/future i.e. they act as a reusable promise/future pair but without transporting any value or exception state, just the permission to proceed. This is due to their original design intention, which was as a promise/future equivalent for C11 (see below for their history, and note that the original C API is available in the boost::c_permit namespace and documentation can be found at https://ci.nedprod.com/job/Boost.Thread%20Build%20Documentation/lastSu ccessfulBuild/artifact/boost-trunk/boost/thread/permit/latex/pthread_p ermit_reference.pdf). As such, they can be very useful for situations where a promise/future is too heavy (permits can spin instead of sleep, plus they need not be repeatedly constructed and destructed)." There is lots more detail at their documentation page: https://ci.nedprod.com/job/Boost.Thread%20Build%20Documentation/Boost. Thread_Documentation/libs/thread/doc/html/thread/synchronization/permi t_ref.html Source code of Permit containing fork of Boost.Thread: https://github.com/ned14/thread/tree/permit_object They come with a functional and load soak test suite. They work on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and I believe OS X. Any other questions do ask. Niall -- Currently unemployed and looking for work in Ireland. Work Portfolio: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/nialldouglas/

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[TTI] macro to "box" types for subsequent traits extraction?
by Rein Halbersma 07 May '14

07 May '14

Hi everyone, this is my first post to this mailinglist, so I hope I follow the proper conventions around here (yes, I did read the Discussion Policy). I have a small feature request for the Type Traits Introspection library: a macro BOOST_TTI_BOX_TYPE(U) that defines a class template box_type<T> with a nested typedef named "type" that equals T::U. Rationale: because box_type<T> is a metafunction that can be supplied to mpl::eval_if, this facilitates user-defined traits that extract a nested type U, but can fall back to a (user-defined) default type. This mimics the C++11 allocator_traits that also provide defaults for allocators that lack certain nested typedefs or other properties. Small self-contained example: http://coliru.stacked-crooked.com/a/76b9abf4aaf00350 One could probably also define similar "boxing" macros to go along with the has_template and other introspection tools in TTI. Would this be considered a useful feature? Rein

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[locale] Who owns/has commit access to review/merge a pull request?
by Chris Stylianou 07 May '14

07 May '14

I have a pull request on boost::locale (on the develop branch), but it appears there has no activity in this repository since the SVN -> Git migration occurred. Who actually maintains boost::locale? I would really like to have this pull request review and then hopefully merge, so that it makes the 1.56 release :) -- View this message in context: http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/locale-Who-owns-has-commit-access-to-rev… Sent from the Boost - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Constant iterator of Single Pass Range
by Jan Hudec 07 May '14

07 May '14

Hello All, The documentation of [Single Pass Range][1] in Boost.Range says that there should be both `iterator` and `const_iterator` associated types and both const and non-const overloads for `begin` and `end`. However if it is really a single-pass range, I don't see a way to implement a `const_iterator` that would work on `const` reference to the range, because the `operator++` of the iterator involves calling a non-const method of the range. For example the `std::istream_iterator::operator++` calls `std::istream::operator>>`, which is non-const and so there is no `const_istream_iterator`. The `istream_range` cheats around this a little, because the range is a wrapper around the stream, not the stream itself. But when I have similarly behaving class that I can make itself be a range, do I really have to work around this using a wrapper, or can the requirement be relaxed in practice? [1]: http://www.boost.org/libs/range/doc/html/range/concepts/single_pass_range.h… -- Jan Hudec <bulb(a)ucw.cz>

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[1.56] Release status?
by Joaquin M Lopez Munoz 06 May '14

06 May '14

Hi, Seems like Boost 1.56 release schedule has been postponed sine die. Is there any blocking issue with the SVN->Github transition that the release depends upon? Thank you, Joaquin M López Muñoz Telefónica

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Help transfer type_index library to the boostorg
by Antony Polukhin 06 May '14

06 May '14

Hi, TypeIndex library was accepted into the Boost. Only a few minor issues remain unfixed so it's time to transfer the library to the boostorg. Unfortunately I have no permissions to do so. Could someone help? -- Best regards, Antony Polukhin

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