[date_time] Library status?
The Boost.DateTime library is very useful, and it is unfortunate to admit that according to Trac report and personal experience, its current state is anything but good. There are long standing tickets, some of them are trivial to fix and have patches already attached. The most annoying ones are missing includes and name clashes (tickets 642, 1740, 1615, 2083, 2091 to name some of them). Is this library still maintained?
I don't know, but I think nobody will complain if you work on bug fixing of Boost.DT... and then asking I you can submit it for a library update (of course I you are interested in working on it and if you have the time). On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev@gmail.com
wrote:
The Boost.DateTime library is very useful, and it is unfortunate to admit that according to Trac report and personal experience, its current state is anything but good. There are long standing tickets, some of them are trivial to fix and have patches already attached. The most annoying ones are missing includes and name clashes (tickets 642, 1740, 1615, 2083, 2091 to name some of them). Is this library still maintained? _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
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Alp Mestan wrote:
I don't know, but I think nobody will complain if you work on bug fixing of Boost.DT... and then asking I you can submit it for a library update (of course I you are interested in working on it and if you have the time).
I'd be glad to fix some of those issues, at least the most annoying and obvious ones. However, if there is some work going on the library, I would like to know about it in order not to clash with the maintainer.
My SVN client tells that the last commit was 10/10/2008, yesterday, by John Maddock. I think you should mail him to get news and maybe for being able to fix some bugs. On 10/11/08, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev@gmail.com> wrote:
Alp Mestan wrote:
I don't know, but I think nobody will complain if you work on bug fixing of Boost.DT... and then asking I you can submit it for a library update (of course I you are interested in working on it and if you have the time).
I'd be glad to fix some of those issues, at least the most annoying and obvious ones. However, if there is some work going on the library, I would like to know about it in order not to clash with the maintainer.
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@Andrey: Did you get a response on your question via PM ? It would be really great if the problems you mentioned were fixed in 1.37 . They had already been reported before the 1.36 beta. And usage of date_time on machines with a gcc 4.3.1 compiler (and possibly any other 4.3 release) seems to require patching of the Boost sources. This applies at least to Debian Lenny and OpenSUSE 11, but quite likely also to other mainstream Linux distributions, such as recent Fedoras. Best Regards, Ruediger Alp Mestan wrote:
My SVN client tells that the last commit was 10/10/2008, yesterday, by John Maddock. I think you should mail him to get news and maybe for being able to fix some bugs.
On 10/11/08, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev@gmail.com> wrote:
Alp Mestan wrote:
I don't know, but I think nobody will complain if you work on bug fixing of Boost.DT... and then asking I you can submit it for a library update (of course I you are interested in working on it and if you have the time).
I'd be glad to fix some of those issues, at least the most annoying and obvious ones. However, if there is some work going on the library, I would like to know about it in order not to clash with the maintainer.
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On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev@gmail.com>wrote:
The Boost.DateTime library is very useful, and it is unfortunate to admit that according to Trac report and personal experience, its current state is anything but good. There are long standing tickets, some of them are trivial to fix and have patches already attached. The most annoying ones are missing includes and name clashes (tickets 642, 1740, 1615, 2083, 2091 to name some of them). Is this library still maintained?
I've forwarded the above to Jeff Garland. If he doesn't respond we will authorize someone else to apply at least the trivial fixes. --Beman
Beman Dawes wrote:
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev@gmail.com>wrote:
The Boost.DateTime library is very useful, and it is unfortunate to admit that according to Trac report and personal experience, its current state is anything but good. There are long standing tickets, some of them are trivial to fix and have patches already attached. The most annoying ones are missing includes and name clashes (tickets 642, 1740, 1615, 2083, 2091 to name some of them). Is this library still maintained?
I've forwarded the above to Jeff Garland. If he doesn't respond we will authorize someone else to apply at least the trivial fixes.
Thanks, Beman.
Andrey Semashev wrote:
Beman Dawes wrote:
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev@gmail.com>wrote:
The Boost.DateTime library is very useful, and it is unfortunate to admit that according to Trac report and personal experience, its current state is anything but good. There are long standing tickets, some of them are trivial to fix and have patches already attached. The most annoying ones are missing includes and name clashes (tickets 642, 1740, 1615, 2083, 2091 to name some of them). Is this library still maintained?
I've forwarded the above to Jeff Garland. If he doesn't respond we will authorize someone else to apply at least the trivial fixes.
My apologies -- the last 6th months have seen the time I have to devote to Boost essentially evaporate...I really haven't even been able to watch the mailing list or do any date-time maintenance. I'm certainly still planning to continue supporting the library, but I don't want to hold up critical fixes just because I'm short on time right now. If someone wants to take the lead on applying a few of these fixes please just email me directly -- I can find 30-60 minutes to scan the changes and make sure they will be compatible going forward. Jeff
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Jeff Garland < jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote:
Andrey Semashev wrote:
Beman Dawes wrote:
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev@gmail.com>wrote:
The Boost.DateTime library is very useful, and it is unfortunate to
admit that according to Trac report and personal experience, its current state is anything but good. There are long standing tickets, some of them are trivial to fix and have patches already attached. The most annoying ones are missing includes and name clashes (tickets 642, 1740, 1615, 2083, 2091 to name some of them). Is this library still maintained?
I've forwarded the above to Jeff Garland. If he doesn't respond we will authorize someone else to apply at least the trivial fixes.
My apologies -- the last 6th months have seen the time I have to devote to Boost essentially evaporate...I really haven't even been able to watch the mailing list or do any date-time maintenance. I'm certainly still planning to continue supporting the library, but I don't want to hold up critical fixes just because I'm short on time right now. If someone wants to take the lead on applying a few of these fixes please just email me directly -- I can find 30-60 minutes to scan the changes and make sure they will be compatible going forward.
Has anyone taken the lead to get these changes into date-time? If someone will get patches ready, and have them approved by Jeff, I'll be happy to apply them. Just include me in the email exchange with Jeff. --Beman
Beman Dawes wrote:
Has anyone taken the lead to get these changes into date-time? If someone will get patches ready, and have them approved by Jeff, I'll be happy to apply them. Just include me in the email exchange with Jeff.
I've contacted with Jeff. I'll try to prepare several patches this weekend and send them to Jeff for approval.
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Jeff Garland -
Ruediger Berlich