[boost] Build help for OS X

2003-08-19 Thread Paul Hamilton
I managed to get my stuff built using all shared libraries on OS X, but I came across the following problems: - I had to hack "boost/format/feedargs.hpp" to remove the static variable (I have explained in other posts why). - I am going to work around this by only having a single include point

Re: [boost] stlport & gcc support

2003-08-19 Thread Russel Hill
Martin Wille wrote: I'm currently considering adding gcc-3.3.1/stlport to the tests. Since we are using boost/stlport/gcc-3.3.1... 1) What kind of resources does it take to run the regression tests? 2) Would it be helpful if we ran them? Could the community make use of our test results? How?

Re: [boost] Re: stlport & gcc support

2003-08-19 Thread Russel Hill
RUSSEL HILL wrote: Trey Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ps. On a related note: do people have pointers to documentation on what bugs exist in stlport 4.5.3, i.e. what gcc has fixed? FWIW... Today we managed to get our project over to gcc-3.3.1, STLport-4.5-0119, and boost 1.30.2. There ap

Re: [boost] stlport & gcc support

2003-08-19 Thread Martin Wille
Trey Jackson wrote: Just a question I thought of while looking at the Boost regression test results. It appears that stlport is only used with gcc 2.95.3 (and in Windows with Intel's C++ compiler and MS C++ 6.0). Is boost moving away from supporting stlport? There is no such intention. >

[boost] Re: [Boost-announce] Boost 1.30.2 is released

2003-08-19 Thread Daryle Walker
On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 11:56 AM, David Abrahams wrote: This release was managed by Dave Abrahams with the generous and dedicated help of Aleksey Gurtovoy and Misha Bergal of Meta-Communications, Inc., and of Martin Wille. We expect this to be the last release in the 1.30.x chain; see

[boost] Re: Insufficient significant digits using lexical_cast

2003-08-19 Thread Daryle Walker
On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 10:31 PM, Paul A. Bristow wrote: Agreed - but what do we do if NOT is_iec559? Give up? #error "Can only work with IEEE 754!" Or choose a massive amount of decimal digits? eg 40? Why not just use what we're currently doing, use numeric_limits<>::digits10 and hope

Re: [boost] Re: Time representation in Boost Date-Time

2003-08-19 Thread Jeff Garland
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:30:38 +1000, Chris Trengove wrote > "Jeff Garland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Yes at the moment there is really no effect because the library doesn't > > contain any time functions. It may not stay this way. And I agree that > the > > p

[boost] BOOST_MESSAGE

2003-08-19 Thread Johnson, Dean
I am using the unit test framework on Solaris 5.8 using workshop 6 I can't get BOOST_MESSAGE to print anything. Here is the output for program: *** Running 1 test case... *** No errors detected *** I was expecting "entering registr

[boost] Re: stlport & gcc support

2003-08-19 Thread RUSSEL HILL
Trey Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ps. On a related note: do people have pointers to documentation on what bugs exist in stlport 4.5.3, i.e. what gcc has fixed? FWIW... Today we managed to get our project over to gcc-3.3.1, STLport-4.5-0119, and boost 1.30.2. There appears to be a disco

[boost] Re: Filesystem portable path rationale and use-cases

2003-08-19 Thread David Abrahams
Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Should we (do we?) have some spreadsheet enumerating various filesystem >> features, quirks, and limitations for whatever systems we can find, and >> using that as a reference regarding how to organize features

Re: [boost] Filesystem portable path rationale and use-cases

2003-08-19 Thread Walter Landry
Brian Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should we (do we?) have some spreadsheet enumerating various filesystem > features, quirks, and limitations for whatever systems we can find, and > using that as a reference regarding how to organize features like > paths, file references, forks, or whatev

[boost] Re: stlport & gcc support

2003-08-19 Thread David Abrahams
Trey Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All, > > Just a question I thought of while looking at the Boost regression > test results. > > It appears that stlport is only used with gcc 2.95.3 (and in Windows > with Intel's C++ compiler and MS C++ 6.0). > > Is boost moving away from supporting stlp

[boost] path::leaf()

2003-08-19 Thread David Abrahams
It surprised me a bit that leaf returns a string instead of a path. Shouldn't "foo/bar"/p.leaf() work? -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com ___ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost

[boost] stlport & gcc support

2003-08-19 Thread Trey Jackson
All, Just a question I thought of while looking at the Boost regression test results. It appears that stlport is only used with gcc 2.95.3 (and in Windows with Intel's C++ compiler and MS C++ 6.0). Is boost moving away from supporting stlport? Or are the regressions not being run for some other

[boost] Re: Boost 1.30.2 is released

2003-08-19 Thread Edward Diener
David Abrahams wrote: > This release was managed by Dave Abrahams with the generous and > dedicated help of Aleksey Gurtovoy and Misha Bergal of > Meta-Communications, Inc., and of Martin Wille. > > We expect this to be the last release in the 1.30.x chain; see our CVS > repository or its mirrors f

[boost] Re: Filesystem portable path rationale and use-cases

2003-08-19 Thread David Abrahams
Brian Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 12:35 AM, Yitzhak Sapir wrote: >> My feeling from all these examples is that a path string is >> inherently specific to the system for which it was specified, and >> can't really be ported to anywhere else. Much like a strin

[boost] Re: Time representation in Boost Date-Time

2003-08-19 Thread Chris Trengove
"Jeff Garland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yes at the moment there is really no effect because the library doesn't > contain any time functions. It may not stay this way. And I agree that the > polarity of this seems reversed. For my purposes, the "split" represe

[boost] [BGL] vector_as_graph::remove_vertex proposal

2003-08-19 Thread Janusz Piwowarski
Hi all I found remove_vertex member for vector_as_graph isn't implemented. It's my proposal: template void remove_vertex(typename EdgeList::value_type u, std::vector& g) { typedef typename EdgeList::iterator iterator; clear_vertex(u, g); g.erase(g.begin() + u);

[boost] Re: number<64> proposal

2003-08-19 Thread Andreas Huber
Philippe, You might be interested in the following: http://www.cuj.com/documents/s=8020/cuj0111ring/ring.htm (MAPM, A Portable Arbitrary Precision Math Library in C) AFAICS fairly complete and there's also a handy C++ wrapper... Regards, Andreas __

Re: [boost] Filesystem portable path rationale and use-cases

2003-08-19 Thread Brian Gray
On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 12:35 AM, Yitzhak Sapir wrote: My feeling from all these examples is that a path string is inherently specific to the system for which it was specified, and can't really be ported to anywhere else. Much like a string is usually inherently specific in its encoding

[boost] Re: number<64> proposal

2003-08-19 Thread Philippe A. Bouchard
Philippe A. Bouchard wrote: > Hi there, > > Like I mentionned before, it would be great for Boost to have an > infinite precision floating point number. You can see an example > here: http://members.lycos.co.uk/keithmbriggs/doubledouble.html. Of > course, the doubles could be replaced by long

[boost] Boost 1.30.2 is released

2003-08-19 Thread David Abrahams
This release was managed by Dave Abrahams with the generous and dedicated help of Aleksey Gurtovoy and Misha Bergal of Meta-Communications, Inc., and of Martin Wille. We expect this to be the last release in the 1.30.x chain; see our CVS repository or its mirrors for new developments expected to

Re: [boost] garbled boostboc output in online docs

2003-08-19 Thread Rene Rivera
[2003-08-19] Douglas Gregor wrote: >On Monday 18 August 2003 11:42 pm, Jeremy Siek wrote: >> Hi Doug, >> >> Hmm, I just viewed it with a different browser (Apple's Safari instead >> of and old version of Netscape on a Sun) and now I see lots of newlines >> (there were none before). Is this a case

[boost] [type-traits] is_convertible patch for KCC

2003-08-19 Thread Ronald Garcia
Hi, I have a small patch to is_convertible.hpp that will allow a version of KCC (__EDG_VERSION__ == 243) to use the *almost* ideal implementation of is_convertible. The current design only uses the ideal implementation for __EDG_VERSION__ >= 245, and the current choice fails to compile for me.

Re: [boost] garbled boostboc output in online docs

2003-08-19 Thread Douglas Gregor
On Monday 18 August 2003 11:42 pm, Jeremy Siek wrote: > Hi Doug, > > Hmm, I just viewed it with a different browser (Apple's Safari instead > of and old version of Netscape on a Sun) and now I see lots of newlines > (there were none before). Is this a case of non-portability of a html > tag, or a b

Re: [boost] Period calculations in Boost Date-Time

2003-08-19 Thread Jeff Garland
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:25:37 +1000, Chris Trengove wrote > I have some concerns about the implementation of the "period" > concept, as given in period.hpp. First of all, the documentation > (for, say, date_period) talks of the constructor > > date_period(date begin,date last) > > as creating a

Re: [boost] Re: Date iterators in Boost Date-Time

2003-08-19 Thread Jeff Garland
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:28:22 -0400, Beman Dawes wrote > FWIW, I'm both a native-speaker and familiar with convex hulls. > Regardless, "span" sounds better to me for use in the context of a > Date-Time library. Ok, span it is. Updates checked into CVS Jeff _

Re: [boost] Time representation in Boost Date-Time

2003-08-19 Thread Jeff Garland
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:08:51 +1000, Chris Trengove wrote > The documentation notes that BOOST_DATE_TIME_POSIX_TIME_STD_CONFIG controls > the choice of the internal time representation, between the "split" > (32 bit integer + 64 bit integer) and "counted" (64 bit integer only) > varieties. The doc

[boost] Re: Non-portable help text of operators library.

2003-08-19 Thread Daniel Frey
Daniel Spangenberg wrote: Daniel Frey schrieb: You are correct. It's on my ToDo-list and I will take care of it along with some other changes that I would like to make to the documentation (mostly restructuring). Currently, my time doesn't permit much work on it, but if you'd like to speed things

[boost] Documents on BGL internals

2003-08-19 Thread Jarl Friis
Hi. I am trying to get a grip on the BGL internals for the purpose of extending it and I want to do it the boost-way. After reading through the source, there seems to be a lot of non-trivial internal design decisions to implement the actual API interface. Does there exists any design documents,

[boost] Re: Non-portable help text of operators library.

2003-08-19 Thread Daniel Spangenberg
Hello Daniel, Daniel Frey schrieb: > You are correct. It's on my ToDo-list and I will take care of it along > with some other changes that I would like to make to the documentation > (mostly restructuring). Currently, my time doesn't permit much work on > it, but if you'd like to speed things up,

[boost] number<64> proposal

2003-08-19 Thread Philippe A. Bouchard
Hi there, Like I mentionned before, it would be great for Boost to have an infinite precision floating point number. You can see an example here: http://members.lycos.co.uk/keithmbriggs/doubledouble.html. Of course, the doubles could be replaced by long doubles, a muldiv() could be easily ad

[boost] Re: 1.30.2 status

2003-08-19 Thread Misha Bergal
Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote: > Things to be done (at large): [...] > 4) After the tarballs are ready, pre-publish them, and do another round of > regressions (on the tarballs). The regression test results for 1.30.2 zipball are OK. They are available at: http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/index.htm

[boost] Re: Non-portable help text of operators library.

2003-08-19 Thread Daniel Frey
Daniel Spangenberg wrote: Since I see strong activities in overworking parts of the documentation, I would like to remember the open question concerning the help text section "Separate, Explicit Instantiation" > > [...] > among the "discussees" I think, that we can be assume, that the current text

Re: [boost] Any progress in bit_iterator?

2003-08-19 Thread Gennaro Prota
--- Gennaro Prota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Note that you can't work on "raw memory" in the sense > that you ignore the type of the objects and treat them as sequences of > unsigned chars: that's because you could end up treating padding bits = 1 as > "real bits" (value bits). Well, that coul

Re: [boost] Any progress in bit_iterator?

2003-08-19 Thread Gennaro Prota
--- Alexander Nasonov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Google shows me a few links about bit_iterator. > > http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg03435.php > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Boost-Users/message/994 > > Any progress since these messages have been posted? > > Definitely, I have an

[boost] Non-portable help text of operators library.

2003-08-19 Thread Daniel Spangenberg
Hello boosters, Since I see strong activities in overworking parts of the documentation, I would like to remember the open question concerning the help text section "Separate, Explicit Instantiation" http://www.boost.org/libs/utility/operators.htm#explicit_instantiation During the summer pause I

[boost] Re: Insufficient significant digits using lexical_cast

2003-08-19 Thread Daniel Spangenberg
Daryle Walker schrieb: > On Sunday, August 17, 2003, at 10:33 PM, Paul A. Bristow wrote: > > [SNIP] > > But you are right that it would be better to check that > > numeric_limits::digits exists and isn't something silly before using > > the formula. With all the built-in floating point types it s

[boost] Any progress in bit_iterator?

2003-08-19 Thread Alexander Nasonov
Google shows me a few links about bit_iterator. http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg03435.php http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Boost-Users/message/994 Any progress since these messages have been posted? Definitely, I have an interest in bit_iterator. But I don't have enough time to implem

[boost] Filesystem portable path rationale and use-cases

2003-08-19 Thread Yitzhak Sapir
This discussion started off with various questions, including the following: 1) Why does it implement any restrictions, by default, on what kind of files it allows? 2) I don't understand why boost::filesystem wants to restrict me to a set of filenames that are portable But the discussion quickly