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12<h1 class="title">Review Wizard Status Report for January 2006</h1>
13<div class="section">
14<h1><a id="news" name="news">News</a></h1>
15<p>Happy New Year!  Here are some statistics regarding Boost Library
16reviews in 2005:</p>
17<blockquote>
18<ul class="simple">
19<li>12 Libraries were reviewed</li>
20<li>8 Libraries were accepted</li>
21<li>1 Library (Function Types) was accepted pending a mini-review</li>
22<li>2 Libraries were rejected</li>
23<li>1 Library has yet to receive a final verdict (ASIO)</li>
24</ul>
25</blockquote>
26<p>Policy Pointer has been removed from the review queue because the author has
27stated that it is not quite ready.</p>
28<p>We need review managers.  Please take a look at the list of libraries
29in need of managers and check out their descriptions.  If you can
30serve as review manager for any of them, send one of us an email.</p>
31<dl class="docutils">
32<dt>Note:</dt>
33<dd>If you have any suggestions about how we could improve
34the Review Wizard's status report,
35please email &quot;reportbase at gmail dot com&quot;
36and &quot;garcia at cs dot indiana dot edu&quot;.</dd>
37</dl>
38</div>
39<div class="section">
40<h1><a id="review-managers-needed" name="review-managers-needed">Review Managers Needed</a></h1>
41<p>There are a few libraries in the review queue in need
42of review managers. If you would like to volunteer to be a review
43manager, please contact Ron or Tom.</p>
44<p>The following libraries still require review managers:</p>
45<blockquote>
46<ul class="simple">
47<li>Fusion</li>
48<li>Shmem</li>
49<li>Pimpl Pointer</li>
50<li>Type Traits (modification)</li>
51<li>Function Types</li>
52</ul>
53</blockquote>
54</div>
55<div class="section">
56<h1><a id="review-queue" name="review-queue">Review Queue</a></h1>
57<blockquote>
58<ul class="simple">
59<li>Fixed Strings - January 19 2006 - January 28 2006</li>
60<li>Intrusive Containers</li>
61<li>Function Types (mini-re-review)</li>
62<li>Shmem</li>
63<li>Fusion</li>
64<li>Pimpl Pointer</li>
65<li>Type Traits (modification)</li>
66</ul>
67</blockquote>
68<hr class="docutils" />
69<div class="section">
70<h2><a id="fixed-strings" name="fixed-strings">Fixed Strings</a></h2>
71<blockquote>
72<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
73<col class="field-name" />
74<col class="field-body" />
75<tbody valign="top">
76<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Reece Dunn</td>
77</tr>
78<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Harmut Kaiser</td>
79</tr>
80<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body">Boost Sandbox (<a class="reference" href="http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/">http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/</a>) under fixed_string</td>
81</tr>
82<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">The fixed string library provides buffer overrun protection for static
83sized strings (char s[ n ]). It provides a C-style string
84interface for compatibility with C code (for
85example, porting a C program to C++).
86There is also a std::string-style interface using a class based on
87flex_string by Andre Alexandrescu with a few limitations due to the
88non-resizable nature of the class.</td>
89</tr>
90</tbody>
91</table>
92</blockquote>
93</div>
94<div class="section">
95<h2><a id="intrusive-containers" name="intrusive-containers">Intrusive Containers</a></h2>
96<blockquote>
97<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
98<col class="field-name" />
99<col class="field-body" />
100<tbody valign="top">
101<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Olaf Krzikalla</td>
102</tr>
103<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">to be determined</td>
104</tr>
105<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://people.freenet.de/turtle++/intrusive.zip">http://people.freenet.de/turtle++/intrusive.zip</a></td>
106</tr>
107<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">While intrusive containers were and are widely used in C, they became
108more and more forgotten in the C++-world due to the presence of the
109standard containers, which don't support intrusive
110techniques. Boost.Intrusive not only reintroduces this technique to
111C++, but also encapsulates the implementation in STL-like
112interfaces. Hence anyone familiar with standard containers can use
113intrusive containers with ease.</td>
114</tr>
115</tbody>
116</table>
117</blockquote>
118</div>
119<div class="section">
120<h2><a id="function-types-mini-re-review" name="function-types-mini-re-review">Function Types (mini-re-review)</a></h2>
121<blockquote>
122<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
123<col class="field-name" />
124<col class="field-body" />
125<tbody valign="top">
126<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Tobias Schwinger</p>
127</td>
128</tr>
129<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">to be determined</p>
130</td>
131</tr>
132<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first"><a class="reference" href="http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/vault/">http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/vault/</a></p>
133</td>
134</tr>
135<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><dl class="first last docutils">
136<dt>This library provides a metaprogramming facility</dt>
137<dd><p class="first last">to classify, decompose and synthesize function-,
138function pointer-, function reference- and
139member function pointer types. For the purpose
140of this documentation, these types are
141collectively referred to as function
142types (this differs from the standard
143definition and redefines the term from
144a programmer's perspective to refer to
145the most common types that involve functions).</p>
146</dd>
147<dt>The classes introduced by this library</dt>
148<dd><p class="first last">shall conform to the concepts of the
149Boost Metaprogramming library (MPL).</p>
150</dd>
151<dt>The Function Types library enables the user to:</dt>
152<dd><ul class="first last simple">
153<li>test an arbitrary type for
154being a function type of specified kind,</li>
155<li>inspect properties of function types,</li>
156<li>view and modify sub types of an
157encapsulated function type with
158MPL Sequence operations, and</li>
159<li>synthesize function types.</li>
160</ul>
161</dd>
162<dt>This library supports variadic functions and</dt>
163<dd><p class="first last">can be configured to support
164non-default calling conventions.</p>
165</dd>
166</dl>
167</td>
168</tr>
169</tbody>
170</table>
171</blockquote>
172</div>
173<div class="section">
174<h2><a id="shmem" name="shmem">Shmem</a></h2>
175<blockquote>
176<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
177<col class="field-name" />
178<col class="field-body" />
179<tbody valign="top">
180<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Ion Gaztanaga</p>
181</td>
182</tr>
183<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">to be determined</p>
184</td>
185</tr>
186<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Boost Sandbox Vault -&gt; Memory (<a class="reference" href="http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/vault/index.php?direction=0&amp;order=&amp;directory=Memory">http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/vault/index.php?direction=0&amp;order=&amp;directory=Memory</a>)</p>
187<p><a class="reference" href="http://ice.prohosting.com/newfunk/boost/libs/shmem/doc/html/index.html">http://ice.prohosting.com/newfunk/boost/libs/shmem/doc/html/index.html</a></p>
188</td>
189</tr>
190<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Shmem offers tools to simplify shared memory usage in
191applications. These include shared memory creation/destruction and
192synchronization objects. It also implements dynamic allocation of
193portions of a shared memory segment and an easy way to construct C++
194objects in shared memory.</p>
195<p class="last">Apart from this, Shmem implements a wide range of STL-like containers
196and allocators that can be safely placed in shared memory, helpful to
197implement complex shared memory data-bases and other efficient
198inter-process communications.</p>
199</td>
200</tr>
201</tbody>
202</table>
203</blockquote>
204</div>
205<div class="section">
206<h2><a id="fusion" name="fusion">Fusion</a></h2>
207<blockquote>
208<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
209<col class="field-name" />
210<col class="field-body" />
211<tbody valign="top">
212<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Joel de Guzman</p>
213</td>
214</tr>
215<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">to be determined</p>
216</td>
217</tr>
218<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first"><a class="reference" href="http://spirit.sourceforge.net/dl_more/fusion_v2/">http://spirit.sourceforge.net/dl_more/fusion_v2/</a>
219<a class="reference" href="http://spirit.sourceforge.net/dl_more/fusion_v2.zip">http://spirit.sourceforge.net/dl_more/fusion_v2.zip</a></p>
220</td>
221</tr>
222<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Fusion is a library of heterogenous containers and views and
223algorithms. A set of heterogenous containers (vector, list, set and
224map) is provided out of the box along with view classes that present
225various composable views over the data. The containers and views
226follow a common sequence concept with an underlying iterator concept
227that binds it all together, suitably making the algorithms fully
228generic over all sequence types.</p>
229<p class="last">The architecture is somewhat modeled after MPL which in turn is
230modeled after STL. It is code-named &quot;fusion&quot; because the library is
231the &quot;fusion&quot; of compile time metaprogramming with runtime programming.</p>
232</td>
233</tr>
234</tbody>
235</table>
236</blockquote>
237</div>
238<div class="section">
239<h2><a id="pimpl-pointer" name="pimpl-pointer">Pimpl Pointer</a></h2>
240<blockquote>
241<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
242<col class="field-name" />
243<col class="field-body" />
244<tbody valign="top">
245<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Asger Mangaard</td>
246</tr>
247<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">to be determined</td>
248</tr>
249<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body">Boost Sandbox (<a class="reference" href="http://boost-consulting.com/vault/">http://boost-consulting.com/vault/</a>) under pimpl_ptr.</td>
250</tr>
251<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">The pimpl idiom is widely used to reduce compile times and disable
252code coupling. It does so by moving private parts of a class from the
253.hpp file to the .cpp file.
254However, it's implementation can be tricky, and with many pitfalls
255(especially regarding memory management).
256The pimpl_ptr library is a single header file, implementing a special
257policy based smart pointer to greately ease the implementation of the
258pimpl idiom.</td>
259</tr>
260</tbody>
261</table>
262</blockquote>
263</div>
264<div class="section">
265<h2><a id="type-traits-modification" name="type-traits-modification">Type_Traits (modification)</a></h2>
266<blockquote>
267<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
268<col class="field-name" />
269<col class="field-body" />
270<tbody valign="top">
271<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Alexander Nasonov</p>
272</td>
273</tr>
274<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">to be determined</p>
275</td>
276</tr>
277<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first"><a class="reference" href="http://cpp-experiment.sourceforge.net/promote-20050917.tar.gz">http://cpp-experiment.sourceforge.net/promote-20050917.tar.gz</a>
278or <a class="reference" href="http://cpp-experiment.sourceforge.net/promote-20050917/">http://cpp-experiment.sourceforge.net/promote-20050917/</a></p>
279</td>
280</tr>
281<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Proposal to add promote, integral_promotion and
282floating_point_promotion class templates to type_traits library.</p>
283<p>Alexander tried it on different compilers with various success:
284GNU/Linux (gentoo-hardened): gcc 3.3 and 3.4, Intel 7, 8 and 9
285Windows: VC7 free compiler
286Sparc Solaris: Sun C++ 5.3 and 5.7</p>
287<p>See comments at the beginning of promote_enum_test.cpp for what is broken.
288<a class="reference" href="http://cpp-experiment.sourceforge.net/promote-20050917/libs/type_traits/test/promote_enum_test.cpp">http://cpp-experiment.sourceforge.net/promote-20050917/libs/type_traits/test/promote_enum_test.cpp</a></p>
289<p class="last">Alexander requests a fast-track review.</p>
290</td>
291</tr>
292</tbody>
293</table>
294</blockquote>
295</div>
296</div>
297<div class="section">
298<h1><a id="libraries-under-development" name="libraries-under-development">Libraries under development</a></h1>
299<div class="section">
300<h2><a id="property-tree" name="property-tree">Property Tree</a></h2>
301<blockquote>
302<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
303<col class="field-name" />
304<col class="field-body" />
305<tbody valign="top">
306<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Marcin Kalicinski</td>
307</tr>
308<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body">Boost Sandbox Vault (<a class="reference" href="http://boost-consulting.com/vault/">http://boost-consulting.com/vault/</a>)
309property_tree_rev3.zip</td>
310</tr>
311</tbody>
312</table>
313</blockquote>
314<p>Please let us know of any libraries you are currently
315developing that you intend to submit for review.</p>
316</div>
317</div>
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