On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Edward Diener <eldiener@tropicsoft.com> wrote:
On 1/14/2011 8:52 AM, Matus Chochlik wrote:
Dear list,
I would like to announce that a new version of the Mirror reflection library is available for download from SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mirror-lib/files/mirror-lib-0.5.2/
It would be easier if this were in the Boost sandbox. But that's up to you.
There is also a Git Repository here: git clone git://mirror-lib.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/mirror-lib/mirror-lib I've used Subversion in the past, but last year I decided to switch to Git which (I really don't want to start the whole discussion again) I personally find to be "better". If there is sufficient interest I might set up a script that would commit the 'boostified' sources to the Sandbox and let cron invoke it (daily, weekly,..)
Since version 0.5.0, Mirror is being developed outside the boost namespace, but the directory linked above contains also a 'boostified' version of the sources with Jamfiles etc.
Besides the docs package, the documentation is also hosted online here:
Quickly looking at the doc, what would be the reason for run-time reflection of templates, since they are a compile-time mechanism ?
Well one reason is that I want the compile-time and the run-time interface to be consistent with each other. But besides that i think, that it might be useful to have the ability to iterate through meta-objects reflecting the individual template parameters at run time, examine them, create instances, etc. But I don't claim to have any groundbreaking application for that. Currently the whole run-time layer is still very experimental.