Beman Dawes wrote:
The C++ Standards Committee met last week in Berlin, Germany. Of interest to Boosters:
Thx for the update -- interesting as usual. Looks like the committee was busy!
* A Boost Date-Time query was presented at the last meeting, and LWG members again in Berlin indicated interest in seeing a full proposal for TR2.
The complete date-time proposal will be available for Portland and I expect to be at the meeting as well.
* A Boost Networking [asio] query was presented, and the LWG has indicated their interest in a full proposal for TR2. The developer of a competing proposal has graciously thrown his support behind the Boost proposal, and may propose some additional higher level functionality.
I have some interest and concerns about the asio as a pure networking proposal -- it's really an io library proposal with networking. As such, there are some issues not currently addressed by the library that I can see the committee being worried about. In any case, I can see Chris needing a helping hand to get this done in time -- presuming that he is still able to pursue this deadline. Can you point us to the competing proposal/developer? We should probably organize a group of interested folks to help this along given the scope and importance of the job.
This coming October is the deadline for TR2 proposals. See www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1810.html
I'd still really like to see a database binding library make it into TR2. Not having this is killing C++ against Java for application developers. We've had some periodic fits and starts, but it seems clear we won't have a Boost library by then. I'd still like to see someone with some time step up and take this on. It's been done about 10 times so I think a proposal could be gleaned from the best of the current bindings... Jeff