On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Richard Smith <richard@ex-parrot.com>wrote:
I've just looked through the list of bugs for the iostreams library:
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/report/14?USER=anonymous&page=4
From a quick scan, it looks like this library is not being
maintained any more. Is this true? Just scratching to scratch the surface, the following dozen bugs seem to be to all be trivial to fix. Many have patches, and the others have a sufficiently clear description that fixing them should only be a couple of minutes' work.
2094 -- has a patch that ought to be uncontroversial 2154 -- relates to code that seems not to exist any longer 2817 -- proposed resolution seems straightforward 2894 -- seems pretty straightforward 2932 -- would be trivial to fix, assuming a fix is desired 3010 -- appears to have been fixed 3011 -- has a patch that ought to be uncontroversial 3197 -- trivial suggestion to remove a compiler warning 3311 -- obviously an error and trivial to fix 3352 -- looks like a genuine subtle bug; includes a patch 3403 -- minor documentation niggle, complete with patch 3505 -- looks a genuine bug and includes patches
Some of the other bugs look pretty serious to me, and I might be inclined to spend some time investigating them if I thought there was any realistic chance of the resulting patches being accepted.
2817 would be a really, really helpful fix, for me anyway.