RE: [boost] Variant Library Review

2003-03-29 Thread Eric Friedman
Quoting Gennadiy Rozental: > Here is my a bit late review for the variant library. In spite of > several > concerns that I have, I incline to vote to ACCEPT this submission. Hi Gennadiy, thanks for the comments. I apologize for my late response. [snip] > Design > __

RE: [boost] Re: Re: Thread Lib and DLL

2003-03-29 Thread Steven Mauceri
I believe you still have the problem of cleanup handlers needing to execute within the closing thread (before the thread exits). One can call WaitForMultipleObjects() with a cleanup-worker thread whenever TLS is used, but you would only be able to execute the cleanup handler function (for the clos

[boost] Re: Re: Thread Lib and DLL

2003-03-29 Thread Edward Diener
David Abrahams wrote: > "William E. Kempf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Russell Hind said: >>> I'd been wondering this, and heard about TLS issues. The issues are >>> only on Windows it appears. Search for the thread >>> >>> "Fwd: Thread-Local Storage (TLS) and templates" by Greg Colvin on >>

RE: [boost] Re: Thread Lib and DLL

2003-03-29 Thread Steven Mauceri
Yes, cleanup could be solved this way (or with other approaches, daemon thread, periodic timers, etc). However, I don't see cleanup as the core issue with making TLS work without a DLL under Win-32. Currently, boost.threads supports (uses/specifies) the POSIX style cleanup model where the cleanup

Re: [boost] Re: Thread Lib and DLL

2003-03-29 Thread David Abrahams
"William E. Kempf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russell Hind said: >> I'd been wondering this, and heard about TLS issues. The issues are >> only on Windows it appears. Search for the thread >> >> "Fwd: Thread-Local Storage (TLS) and templates" by Greg Colvin on >> 18/02/2003 >> >> Specifically

Re: [boost] Regression logs

2003-03-29 Thread David Abrahams
Beman Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think Alisdair's raised some good points. While I'm not sure > regression testers will want to put a lot of effort into back tests, I > think it would be good if from here on out we segregated current from > past tests. > > So I'd say give it a bit more

[boost] How do I install boost::filesystem?

2003-03-29 Thread Christian Engström
I am trying to use the boost::filesystem library, but when I follow the instructions in the documentation to the best of my ability, the linker does not seem to find the components that it needs. I am using MSVC6 under Windows XP, and after downloading version 1.30.0, I typed bjam "-sTOOLS=ms

Re: [boost] Determining interest in combining_iterator

2003-03-29 Thread Thomas Becker
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW, I've extended my pair iterator to be a tuple > iterator for > input/forward/bidirectional/random-access iterator > categories, which was > relatively painless. I will boostify it, add output > iterator support back in, > and test it with VC7.1 as well as g++ 3.2.2