On 6 September 2012 16:02, Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org> wrote:

hi all,

boost.atomic has been accepted as boost library and has been in trunk for a few months. however there are some issues and pending patches and helge bahmann, the original author, did not comment on any of them.

therefore, hartmut and me would like to adopt the library temporarily to support helge, and merge these pending patches. we also like to add the library into the release branch, so that it will make it into 1.52.

any objections?

I've had a look at the library. It needs to be added to libs/libraries.htm, the entry in libs/maintainers.txt should be the person who's actually maintaining it. It needs a libs/atomic/index.html file which redirects to the documentation. We also need to sort out how the documentation is built, I just tried building it and it doesn't seem to include the reference documentation. There's a header libs/atomic/doc/atomic.hpp which I guess contains doxygen documentation, but it isn't included in the build. There are a lot of test failures which need to be looked at before merging to release. There are a handful of inspect errors, which shouldn't be too hard to fix: http://boost.cowic.de/rc/inspect-trunk.html#atomic