Re: [boost] [preprocessor] Link to Boostpro site for introduction to preprocessor metaprogramming

On 5/19/2015 4:58 AM, Rob Stewart wrote:

On May 18, 2015 9:44:10 PM EDT, Edward Diener wrote:

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The preprocessor documentation has a link to the Boostpro site which had an html version of the Appendix A of "C++ Template Metaprogramming" by

Abrahams and Gurtovoy. Appendix A is "An Introduction to Preprocessor Metaprogramming", which is all about Boost PP.

Alas Boostpro is no more and the link in the preprocessor documentation goes nowhere. [snip] Does anyone know how to contact either of them ? I can try their addresses in maintainers.txt but I do not want to directly encroach on their privacy if there is a better way.

You could check the wayback machine: https://archive.org/web/.

I was able to create the "Appendix A of 'C++ Template Metaprogramming'" locally, from the wayback machine download, as part of the Boost PP documentation, and link to its local copy as part of the initial page of Boost PP. I was able to remove all the wayback machine cruft and the documentation looks smooth. Should I still attempt to contact Dave Abrahams and Aleksey Gurtovoy about this, to get their permission ? The Boost PP doc gives them and their book full credit for the tutorial and of course the tutorial pages show exactly where it comes from. But I do not want to be infringing on copyrights or anyone's rights in this. The Boost PP documentation previously linked to the boostpro site to present the tutorial, and therefore it must have been fine with the authors who were among the leaders and guiding forces of Boost at that time. Anyone have any strong opinions one way or the other ? I do want to keep the tutorial for Boost PP if at all possible, as it is an excellent introduction to the library, and I am pretty sure Paul Mensonides would agree with that. There is a Boost PP trac bug report mentioning that the link in the latest versions of Boost is broken, so this is my attempt to fix it.