RE: [boost] Live summary of regression tests.

2003-01-19 Thread Rene Rivera
[2003-01-19] Jeff Garland wrote: > >> In order to make regression test browsing more pleasant for all of us. I >> decided to work up a little script to gather up all the test results that >> get posted to the boost.sourceforge.net site. So browse on over to: >> >> http://boost.sourceforge.net

Re: [boost] Live summary of regression tests.

2003-01-19 Thread Douglas Gregor
On Sunday 19 January 2003 09:14 pm, Rene Rivera wrote: > In order to make regression test browsing more pleasant for all of us. I > decided to work up a little script to gather up all the test results that > get posted to the boost.sourceforge.net site. So browse on over to: > > http://boost.so

RE: [boost] Live summary of regression tests.

2003-01-19 Thread Jeff Garland
> In order to make regression test browsing more pleasant for all of us. I > decided to work up a little script to gather up all the test results that > get posted to the boost.sourceforge.net site. So browse on over to: > > http://boost.sourceforge.net/regression-logs > > ..and take a look.

[boost] Re: [Boost-docs] Integrating BoostBook documentation withHTMLdocumentation

2003-01-19 Thread Douglas Gregor
On Sunday 19 January 2003 08:25 pm, Beman Dawes wrote: > I'd like to see a bit more refinement first, and understand how the > maintenance works. > > Let's take the last first. What does a developer do to add a new library? If the library documentation is in the BoostBook format, just make sure th

[boost] Re: Policy-based smart pointers revisisted

2003-01-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
"Alisdair Meredith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Yet I always find myself turning to either scoped_ptr (practically > essential with the borland VCL), std::auto_ptr (for returning from > factory-type functions) or shared_ptr (for just about eve

Re: [boost] Re: Policy-based smart pointers revisisted

2003-01-19 Thread Greg Colvin
At 05:24 PM 1/19/2003, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >"Terje Slettebø" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >038e01c2bf0e$cc8f35a0$cb6c6f50@pc">news:038e01c2bf0e$cc8f35a0$cb6c6f50@pc... >>I'm also all for simplicity, cohesion, decoupling, do the simplest thing >that could possibly work (XP/pragmatic p

[boost] Live summary of regression tests.

2003-01-19 Thread Rene Rivera
In order to make regression test browsing more pleasant for all of us. I decided to work up a little script to gather up all the test results that get posted to the boost.sourceforge.net site. So browse on over to: http://boost.sourceforge.net/regression-logs ..and take a look. And for those

[boost] Re: [Boost-docs] Integrating BoostBook documentation withHTMLdocumentation

2003-01-19 Thread Beman Dawes
At 02:30 PM 1/19/2003, Douglas Gregor wrote: >The alphabetized/categorized list of libraries generated from the BoostBook >documentation now includes all libraries that have (only) HTML >documentation, so it is now possible to replace boost/libs/libraries.htm >with the generated doc/html/librarie

Re: [boost] Re: compile-time binary constants

2003-01-19 Thread Beman Dawes
At 07:00 AM 1/19/2003, Gennaro Prota wrote: >Yes, I would be glad to write a formal proposal. But, as it has been >repeatedly pointed out on comp.std.c++, this is not enough if you are >not in the committee and that, de facto, there are very little chances >for the proposal to be approved if you a

RE: [boost] date_time oversight?

2003-01-19 Thread Jeff Garland
> ... details omitted... > > This function purports to be valid for any charT. However, because greg_base_facet >is > a typedef for date_names_put with a default of "char", it looks to me it wouldn't >work for > other char types such as wchar_t. Yes, this is, or rather was a bug. Fix checked

Re: [boost] Re: Policy-based smart pointers revisisted

2003-01-19 Thread Paul Mensonides
- Original Message - From: "Alisdair Meredith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The simplicity is simply too big a lure. Although we could tune and > focus our pointers more effectively using policies and Loki, we then > have the complexity of many pointer types running through our code, and > havin

[boost] Re: Policy-based smart pointers revisisted

2003-01-19 Thread Alisdair Meredith
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > Back to pbd smart pointers, looks like nobody needs policy-based smart > pointers coz they're so complex and shared_ptr just works for everybody, > yet new xyz_ptr classes designed from scratch seem to appear around here > quite often :o\. I just can't stop remarking h

[boost] Re: Policy-based smart pointers revisisted

2003-01-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
"Terje Slettebø" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 038e01c2bf0e$cc8f35a0$cb6c6f50@pc">news:038e01c2bf0e$cc8f35a0$cb6c6f50@pc... >I'm also all for simplicity, cohesion, decoupling, do the simplest thing that could possibly work (XP/pragmatic programmers), etc., and I'm sure Andrei is, as well. Af

[boost] Re: Re: Re: Policy-based smart pointers revisisted (was:Re:Preliminarysubmission: command line & config file library)

2003-01-19 Thread Edward Diener
"David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > "Edward Diener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > "David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... > >> "Edward Diener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> > Nonetheless I do favor a compiler change suc

Re: [boost] running regression tests

2003-01-19 Thread Beman Dawes
At 12:31 PM 1/17/2003, Ronald Garcia wrote: >When I run >./process_jam_log < bin\bjam.log > >I get the error: > >Usage: bjam [bjam-args] | process_jam_log [locate-root] > locate-root is the same as the bjam ALL_LOCATE_TARGET > parameter, if any. Default is boost-root. >no errors detected > >So i

Re: [boost] running regression tests

2003-01-19 Thread Beman Dawes
At 02:40 PM 1/18/2003, Ronald Garcia wrote: > > >On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, David Abrahams wrote: > >> Ronald Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Is there a way to get this to work without previously running the >entire >> > boost test suite? I just want to test one library. >> >> For testing one

Re: [boost] A question about static_log2

2003-01-19 Thread Vesa Karvonen
Gennaro Prota: Can someone who was subscribed when the Integer library was approved explain me what were the reasons to choose the current implementation of static_log2 against e.g. I can't help in that, but template struct log2 { BOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT(unsigned long,

Re: [boost] Re: Boost as charity-ware

2003-01-19 Thread Rene Rivera
[2003-01-19] Gennaro Prota wrote: >On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 15:19:15 -0600, Rene Rivera ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>[2003-01-19] Gennaro Prota wrote: >> >>>I would *love* to see boost becoming a charity-ware collection of >>>libraries. >> >>Why? > >What a question! Because that would mean making g

[boost] Re: Boost as charity-ware

2003-01-19 Thread Alisdair Meredith
Gennaro Prota wrote: > I would *love* to see boost becoming a charity-ware collection of > libraries. The idea is that we choose a list of associations and > bodies, and set up a mechanism, through the boost site or another > site, where download is possible only by making a donation to one of > t

[boost] Re: Boost as charity-ware

2003-01-19 Thread David B. Held
"Gennaro Prota" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I would *love* to see boost becoming a charity-ware collection of > libraries. The idea is that we choose a list of associations and > bodies, and set up a mechanism, through the boost site or anothe

[boost] Re: Boost as charity-ware

2003-01-19 Thread Gennaro Prota
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 15:19:15 -0600, Rene Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[2003-01-19] Gennaro Prota wrote: > >>I would *love* to see boost becoming a charity-ware collection of >>libraries. > >Why? What a question! Because that would mean making good deeds. >>The idea is that we choose a lis

RE: [boost] [build/test] Testing different configurations, miscquestions

2003-01-19 Thread Jeff Garland
> > Is there some way to do this? > > Yeah, just use different names for the two tests. The signature of the > run rule is: > > run ( sources + : args * : input-files * : requirements * : name ? : default-build >* ) Ok here is a snippet of my actual Jamfile. For some reason only the first of

Re: [boost] Boost as charity-ware

2003-01-19 Thread Rene Rivera
[2003-01-19] Gennaro Prota wrote: >I would *love* to see boost becoming a charity-ware collection of >libraries. Why? >The idea is that we choose a list of associations and >bodies, and set up a mechanism, through the boost site or another >site, where download is possible only by making a dona

[boost] Re: compile-time binary constants

2003-01-19 Thread Gennaro Prota
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 15:48:00 -0500, David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If I knew I wouldn't have asked. If you've posted about it before, >you should know that I don't read every post. I thought this was clear and that you were abstracted when asking it now. The reason is just that impli

Re: [boost] Re: Policy-based smart pointers revisisted (was:Re:Preliminarysubmission:command line & config file library)

2003-01-19 Thread Larry Evans
David B. Held on Sat, 18 Jan 2003 05:07:00 -0600 wrote: > "Edward Diener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > b0aro4$5gq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:b0aro4$5gq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > >[...] > Actually, the policy_ptr<> code in the sandbox features a policy adaptor > that automagically detects specif

[boost] Boost as charity-ware

2003-01-19 Thread Gennaro Prota
I would *love* to see boost becoming a charity-ware collection of libraries. The idea is that we choose a list of associations and bodies, and set up a mechanism, through the boost site or another site, where download is possible only by making a donation to one of the associations. That would be t

Re: [boost] Re: compile-time binary constants

2003-01-19 Thread David Abrahams
Gennaro Prota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 12:59:16 -0500, David Abrahams > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Why wouldn't you just write implicit_cast(expr) in this >>case? Are you trying to save copies? > > It seems that you are deep in other thoughts today ;-) You know the >

Re: [boost] [build/test] Testing different configurations, miscquestions

2003-01-19 Thread David Abrahams
"Jeff Garland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been upgrading the Jamfiles for the date_time library have > a couple questions: > > 1) I have a need to build tests with different compile options. > For example consider the following example where the tests > are the same, but the compile opti

Re: [boost] boost-announce mailing list

2003-01-19 Thread Beman Dawes
At 01:37 AM 1/5/2003, Ihsan Ali Al Darhi wrote: >Hi... > >What happened to this mailing list? Did you create a list to announce your >new to do ideas? The boost-announce list is alive and well, and is used to announce formal reviews, new releases, etc. I think what you may be thinking of is a l

Re: [boost] Re: Equivalence Relation class

2003-01-19 Thread Jeremy Siek
It still would be nice to have the underlying disjoint sets (union/find) data structure as an official boost library. On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote: jyassk> > Isn't this functionality equivalent to the dynamic connected components jyassk> > in the Boost graph library? jyassk> > jyass

[boost] [build/test] Testing different configurations, misc questions

2003-01-19 Thread Jeff Garland
I have been upgrading the Jamfiles for the date_time library have a couple questions: 1) I have a need to build tests with different compile options. For example consider the following example where the tests are the same, but the compile options are different. test-suite date_time_gregorian

Re: [boost] Equivalence Relation class

2003-01-19 Thread Jeremy Siek
Hi Jeffrey, I think so. union/find is used in the Boost Graph Library, and there is an implementation of it, in boost/pending/disjoint_sets.hpp. The reason it is in pending is that I've never bothered to write docs and submit it to boost. Anyways, it would be interesting to compare the interface

[boost] Re: compile-time binary constants

2003-01-19 Thread Gennaro Prota
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 12:59:16 -0500, David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Why wouldn't you just write implicit_cast(expr) in this >case? Are you trying to save copies? It seems that you are deep in other thoughts today ;-) You know the reason why I don't use implicit_cast(expr). >(You migh

[boost] Re: compile-time binary constants

2003-01-19 Thread Gennaro Prota
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 12:29:25 -0700, Greg Colvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 12:11 PM 1/19/2003, David Abrahams wrote: > >>As interesting as this may be, the discussion of string literals as >>template parameters is off-topic for this group. Please either >>connect this discussion back to libra

[boost] A question about static_log2

2003-01-19 Thread Gennaro Prota
Can someone who was subscribed when the Integer library was approved explain me what were the reasons to choose the current implementation of static_log2 against e.g. template struct log2 { BOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT(unsigned long, value = 1 + (log2::value));

[boost] Integrating BoostBook documentation with HTML documentation

2003-01-19 Thread Douglas Gregor
The alphabetized/categorized list of libraries generated from the BoostBook documentation now includes all libraries that have (only) HTML documentation, so it is now possible to replace boost/libs/libraries.htm with the generated doc/html/libraries.html. Here is the HTML: http://www.cs.rpi.

Re: [boost] Re: compile-time binary constants

2003-01-19 Thread Greg Colvin
At 12:11 PM 1/19/2003, David Abrahams wrote: >As interesting as this may be, the discussion of string literals as >template parameters is off-topic for this group. Please either >connect this discussion back to library design or take it elsewhere. Agreed. An interesting question is how to desig

Re: [boost] Re: compile-time binary constants

2003-01-19 Thread Greg Colvin
At 10:59 AM 1/19/2003, Gennaro Prota wrote: >On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 20:16:36 -0700, Greg Colvin ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>At a meeting years ago I proposed to make string literals more >>useful as constant expressions, but we decided against that. >>As I recall part of the problem is that linker

[boost] Re: Re: Re: Policy-based smart pointers revisisted(was:Re:Preliminarysubmission: command line & config file library)

2003-01-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
"Terje Slettebø" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 092001c2bfeb$e91ee110$cb6c6f50@pc">news:092001c2bfeb$e91ee110$cb6c6f50@pc... > This issue is also discussed in D&E. When you have ordinary function calls, > you also have the names/values used in the call, to help you understand the > meaning of

Re: [boost] Re: compile-time binary constants

2003-01-19 Thread David Abrahams
As interesting as this may be, the discussion of string literals as template parameters is off-topic for this group. Please either connect this discussion back to library design or take it elsewhere. Thanks, Dave -- David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.boost-

Re: [boost] Re: compile-time binary constants

2003-01-19 Thread Terje Slettebø
>From: "Gennaro Prota" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 20:16:36 -0700, Greg Colvin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >At a meeting years ago I proposed to make string literals more > >useful as constant expressions, but we decided against that. > >As I recall part of the problem is that l

Re: [boost] Re: Re: Policy-based smart pointers revisisted (was:Re:Preliminarysubmission: command line & config file library)

2003-01-19 Thread David Abrahams
"Edward Diener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... >> "Edward Diener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Nonetheless I do favor a compiler change such as allowing the "default" >> > keyword to be used instead as Mr. Terekhov suggested in that same thread. >>

Re: [boost] Re: Re: Policy-based smart pointers revisisted (was:Re:Preliminarysubmission: command line & config file library)

2003-01-19 Thread Terje Slettebø
>From: "Edward Diener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > > > Oh, it's a problem alright, but I'm still not very convinced of that > > solution. The problem with interfaces that have lots of positional > > parameters is that you forget what the differe

Re: [boost] regression tests for aCC are up

2003-01-19 Thread Beman Dawes
At 11:05 AM 1/17/2003, David Abrahams wrote: >Toon Knapen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Friday 17 January 2003 12:32, John Maddock wrote: >>> So only the gcc tests will be run, I assume that you have some detritus >in >>> bin directory from previous HP aCC runs, which is why you are seeing >

[boost] Re: BOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT and VC++ enums

2003-01-19 Thread Gennaro Prota
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 19:34:44 +0100, Gennaro Prota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 13:06:06 -0500, David Abrahams ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Right. But does it print anything in this case? >> >> if (e1 < 0) >> std::cout << "whoops\n"; >> >>Then I'd be worried. >

Re: [boost] intel-linux-tools.jam

2003-01-19 Thread David Abrahams
Toon Knapen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 17 January 2003 11:07, David Abrahams wrote: >> It's not just about circular dependencies. If library A depends on >> library B, when you link them into an executable there's no guarantee >> that they'll appear in the right order. > > > OK but I

[boost] Re: Re: Policy-based smart pointers revisisted (was:Re:Preliminarysubmission: command line & config file library)

2003-01-19 Thread Edward Diener
"David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > "Edward Diener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > "Fredrik Blomqvist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > b0cvd7$4dv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:b0cvd7$4dv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > >> -snip- > >> > I

[boost] Re: compile-time binary constants

2003-01-19 Thread Gennaro Prota
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 20:16:36 -0700, Greg Colvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At a meeting years ago I proposed to make string literals more >useful as constant expressions, but we decided against that. >As I recall part of the problem is that linkers are free to map >the same literal string to diff

Re: [boost] Re: compile-time binary constants

2003-01-19 Thread David Abrahams
Gennaro Prota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 09:42:51 -0500, David Abrahams > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For another thing, it would be a compile-error if the expression *can* be implicitly converted to the destination type, which makes no sense to me. >>> >>> Isn'

Re: [boost] Re: Re: Re: Policy-based smart pointers revisisted(was: Re:Preliminarysubmission: command line & config file library)

2003-01-19 Thread David Abrahams
"Edward Diener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe it should be refactored out into the MPL if it is generic enough to do > so and then others can use it more easily in their own policy-like > classes ? I really think that MPL is an inappropriate place for it. It would be very useful as a separ

Re: [boost] regression tests for aCC are up

2003-01-19 Thread Toon Knapen
On Friday 17 January 2003 11:28, Rene Rivera wrote: > [2003-01-17] Toon Knapen wrote: > >On Friday 17 January 2003 12:32, John Maddock wrote: > >> So only the gcc tests will be run, I assume that you have some detritus > > in > > >> bin directory from previous HP aCC runs, which is why you are seei

Re: [boost] intel-linux-tools.jam

2003-01-19 Thread Toon Knapen
On Friday 17 January 2003 11:07, David Abrahams wrote: > Toon Knapen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Friday 17 January 2003 14:59, David Abrahams wrote: > >> No, please restore that feature. The build system offers no > >> guarantees about the order in which specified libraries will be added >

[boost] Re: compile-time binary constants

2003-01-19 Thread Gennaro Prota
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 09:42:51 -0500, David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>For another thing, it would be a compile-error if the >>>expression *can* be implicitly converted to the destination type, >>>which makes no sense to me. >> >> Isn't this the intent? > >I don't know what the intent i

Re: [boost] Problems with boost on Cray C++ release 3.6

2003-01-19 Thread Matthias Troyer
I still have three problems with Cray C++ v. 3.6, but got some parts to compile. They are: i) a problem with template instantiation - here it seems that the compiler might not be correctly installed on our system and I will talk to the Cray engineers. ii) static assertions do not work iii) in so

Re: [boost] More boost boo boo's ?

2003-01-19 Thread Douglas Gregor
On Sunday 19 January 2003 06:33 am, John Maddock wrote: > Looking through the regression test results, there seem to be some tests > that are failing for all of the tested compilers: > > Function: > function_arith_portable > function_arith_cxx98 > function_ref_cxx98 > function_ref_p

Re: [boost] Re: compile-time binary constants

2003-01-19 Thread David Abrahams
Gennaro Prota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 21:55:59 -0500, David Abrahams > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Gennaro Prota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> I see. Can we expect an "extension" for C++0x then? >> >>Not unless someone makes a formal proposal. Are you volunteering

Re: [boost] HP regression tests

2003-01-19 Thread David Abrahams
"John Maddock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Toon, > > There are a couple of config issues arising from the HP regression tests > (and thanks for running these BTW): > > The output from config_info is not showing up in the report (which is really > the reason for the extra queries below), try dele

Re: [boost] Re: Policy-based smart pointers revisisted (was:Re:Preliminarysubmission: command line & config file library)

2003-01-19 Thread David Abrahams
"Edward Diener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Fredrik Blomqvist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > b0cvd7$4dv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:b0cvd7$4dv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... >> -snip- >> > I thought the C++ template solution by Damian Conway was pretty neat, >> -snip- >> I thought so too at first, b

[boost] date_time oversight?

2003-01-19 Thread Yitzhak Sapir
date_names_put is defined in date_names_put.hpp as template > class date_names_put : public std::locale::facet file greg_facet.hpp defines: typedef boost::date_time::date_names_put greg_base_facet; This makes use of the default charT = char. Later in that file... template inlin

[boost] HP regression tests

2003-01-19 Thread John Maddock
Toon, There are a couple of config issues arising from the HP regression tests (and thanks for running these BTW): The output from config_info is not showing up in the report (which is really the reason for the extra queries below), try deleting boost-path/status/bin/config_info.test/ before you

[boost] Re: compile-time binary constants

2003-01-19 Thread Gennaro Prota
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 21:55:59 -0500, David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Gennaro Prota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I see. Can we expect an "extension" for C++0x then? > >Not unless someone makes a formal proposal. Are you volunteering? Yes, I would be glad to write a formal proposal. B

[boost] More boost boo boo's ?

2003-01-19 Thread John Maddock
Looking through the regression test results, there seem to be some tests that are failing for all of the tested compilers: Function: function_arith_portable function_arith_cxx98 function_ref_cxx98 function_ref_portable mem_fun_cxx98 mem_fun_portable std_bind_cxx98 s

[boost] Re: compile-time binary constants

2003-01-19 Thread Gennaro Prota
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 20:16:36 -0700, Greg Colvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At a meeting years ago I proposed to make string literals more >useful as constant expressions, but we decided against that. >As I recall part of the problem is that linkers are free to map >the same literal string to dif