Review Wizard Status Report 1) Summary 2) Review Managers Needed 3) Review Schedule 1) Summary The next three libraries under review extend the c++ iostreams framework through stream modifiers. Please be prepared to discuss these libraries in the coming weeks. 2) Review Managers Needed If you would like to volunteer to be a review manager, please contact me at reportbase@yahoo.com. 3) Review Schedule August 21, 2004 More IO August 28, 2004 Iostreams September 7, 2004 Output Formatters September 15, 2004 Mini-Review wiki algorithims September 17, 2004 Smart Containers September 27, 2004 Named Params October 6, 2004 Policy Pointer October 16, 2004 Wave October 26, 2004 Finite State Machine (FSM) November 4, 2004 Fixed Strings August 21, 2004 More IO Author - Daryle Walker - darylew@hotmail.com Review Manager - Tom Brinkman - reportbase@yahoo.com Download: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/more_io_4.zip [or] http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/more_io_4.zip Description: Provides a multitude of I/O-oriented extensions. Some are extra manipulators; variants of "std::endl", a resetting manipulator, and a configurable manipulator. The library includes a set of base class templates for wrapping a new stream-buffer type around a stream class. Changes from the last interim version (called "more_io_3b.zip"): * split the manipulator header into several headers * refined the license statements in some already-affected files Changes from the first formal review (called "more_io.zip"): * refined the interface and implementation of array-streams and stream-buffer wrappers (including a wrapping example) * added the null-stream, value-stream, and pointer-stream headers * added generalizations to the new-line and skip-line manipulators * added the non-oriented 'reset' and 'form' manipulators * split the manipulator header into several headers * changed the license statements August 28, 2004 Iostreams Author - Jonathan Turkanis - turkanis@kangaroologic.com Review Manager - Volunteer needed Web-Page: http://home.comcast.net/~jturkanis/iostreams Download: http://home.comcast.net/~jturkanis/iostreams Description: The Iostreams Library serves two main purposes: To allow the easy creation of standard C++ stream and stream buffer classes for new data sources and sinks. To provide a convenient interface for defining i/o filters and attaching them to standard streams and stream buffers. The library focuses on freeing users from writing boiler plate code and allowing them instead to create highly reusable components. In addition to providing an abstract framework the library provides a number of concrete filters, sources and sinks which serve as example applications of the library but are also useful in their own right. These include components for accessing memory-mapped files (based on work of Craig Henderson) , for file access via operating system file descriptors, for code conversion, for text filtering with regular expressions, for line-ending conversion and for compression and decompression in the zlib, gzip and bzip2 formats. September 7, 2004 Output Formatters Author - Reece Dunn - msclrhd@hotmail.com Review Manager - John Torjo - john@torjo.com Download: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/ boost-sandbox/boost-sandbox/boost/outfmt/ [or] http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/ boost-sandbox/boost-sandbox/libs/outfmt/ Description: The I/O formatters library provides an easy and customizable way to input/output arrays, STL arrays, STL collections, sub-arrays from/to STL streams. It allows you to configure how each element in such an array will be written to the stream or read from the stream, while providing reasonable defaults. September 15, 2004 Mini-Review wiki algorithims Author - Various Review Manager - Tom Brinkman - reportbase@yahoo.com Download: to be determined Description: not available September 17, 2004 Smart Containers Author - Thorsten Ottosen - nesotto@cs.auc.dk Review Manager - Pavol Droba - droba@topmail.dk Download: the boost sandbox: ptr_container Description: The Smart Container Library consists of several container classes that are capable of storing heap-allocated objects in an exception-safe manner. The interface of the container classes effectively hides the underlying pointers so one can work on objects directly; this indirection is done to make the classes safer and easier to use. The library can also be customized to allow, for example, that a container does not rake ownership of the stored objects. September 27, 2004 Named Params Co-Authors - David Abrahams - dave@boost-consulting.com) & Daniel Wallin (dalwan01@student.umu.se) Review Manager - to be determined Download: Boost sandbox boost/named_params.hpp [and] libs/utility/doc/named_params.html Description: This library is an attempt to address the problems of positional parameters by associating each parameter with a keyword identifier. Using this library, users can identify parameters by name instead of just argument position, and pass them in any order: window* w = new_window("alert2", movable = movability, opacity = 50); October 6, 2004 Policy Pointer Author - David Held - dheld@codelogicconsulting.com Review Manager - to be determined Download: available via boost CVS Description: Smart pointers are used to automate memory management by handling the deletion of dynamically allcoated objects (and other resources). They assist in ensuring program correctness, exception safety, and memory integrity. Policy Pointer is a policy-based smart pointer framework designed to accomodate the large number of smart pointer designs. Through the use of policy classes, virtually any smart pointer type can be constructed within this framework. This library is a Boostification of the original Loki::SmartPtr type with significant modifications. October 16, 2004 Wave Author - Hartmut Kaiser - hartmutkaiser@t-online.de Review Manager - to be determined Download Boost-sandbox Description: The Wave C++ preprocessor library is a Standards conformant implementation of the mandated C99/C++ preprocessor functionality packed behind a simple to use interface, which integrates well with the well known idioms of the Standard Template Library (STL). It uses the Spirit[4] parser construction library to implement a C++ lexer with ISO/ANSI Standards conformant preprocessing capabilities. It exposes an iterator interface, which returns the current preprocessed token from the input stream. This preprocessed token is generated on the fly while iterating over the preprocessor iterator sequence (in the terminology of the STL these iterators are forward iterators). October 26, 2004 Finite State Machine (FSM) Author - Andreas Huber - ah2003@gmx.net Review Manager - to be determined Summary - not available Download - not available November 4, 2004 Fixed Strings Author - Reece Dunn - msclrhd@hotmail.com Review Manager - to be determined Download: boosts-sandbox/boost/fixed_string [or] boost-sandbox/libs/fixed_string Description: The fixed string library provides buffer overrun protection for static sized strings (char s[ n ]). It provides a C-style string interface for compatibility with C code (for example, porting a C program to C++). There is also a std::string-style interface using a class based on flex_string by Andre Alexandrescu with a few limitations due to the non-resizable nature of the class. Tom Brinkman Boost Review Wizard reportbase@yahoo.com