Re: [Boost-maint] [boost] Community Maintenance Team and neglected libraries

2014-05-15 Thread Beman Dawes
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Ben Pope benpop...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 04:08 AM, Edward Diener wrote: None of these are in the list of libraries which the community maintenance team has write acces to apply fixes. Hopefully the developers who do have write

Re: [Boost-maint] Community Maintenance Team and neglected libraries

2014-05-15 Thread Beman Dawes
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Andrey Semashev andrey.semas...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 23 April 2014 00:29:17 Ben Pope wrote: In case you haven't heard of the CMT: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/CommunityMaintenance I'm also interested in getting the test results less

Re: [Boost-maint] [boost] Community Maintenance Team and neglected libraries

2014-05-15 Thread Beman Dawes
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Edward Diener eldie...@tropicsoft.comwrote: On 4/22/2014 12:29 PM, Ben Pope wrote: In case you haven't heard of the CMT: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/CommunityMaintenance I'm also interested in getting the test results less yellow and more green, I

Re: [Boost-cmake] merged to trunk (mpi tests fixed)

2009-05-21 Thread Beman Dawes
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:01 PM, troy d. straszheim t...@resophonic.com wrote: Hey, I went interrupt-driven for a bit and merged to trunk. Wow! Thanks! --Beman ___ Boost-cmake mailing list Boost-cmake@lists.boost.org

Re: [Boost-cmake] Creating Known Issues: CMake Problems with boost 1.39

2009-05-15 Thread Beman Dawes
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Doug Gregor doug.gre...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Daniel James daniel_ja...@fmail.co.uk wrote: I've added CMakeLists.txt to the release manager checklist so this should be updated by a release manager for future releases:

Re: [Boost-cmake] Wiki to disappear: docs in progress

2009-05-13 Thread Beman Dawes
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Brad King brad.k...@kitware.com wrote: Beman Dawes wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Doug Gregor doug.gre...@gmail.com wrote: Beman, did you enable testing? No. I figured that was a bit much for now. Even without all of the tests, Boost still has

Re: [Boost-cmake] Creating Known Issues: CMake Problems with boost 1.39

2009-05-13 Thread Beman Dawes
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Daniel James daniel_ja...@fmail.co.uk wrote: 2009/5/13 troy d. straszheim t...@resophonic.com: Tan, Tom (Shanghai) wrote: I used CMake to build boost 1.39 and found at least two problems:  - In the cmakelist.txt file the BOOST_VERSION_MINOR is 38, instead of

Re: [Boost-cmake] CDash dashboard now available

2009-05-12 Thread Beman Dawes
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Doug Gregor doug.gre...@gmail.com wrote: ... We might be able to prod someone into building x86 Windows binaries. Any takers? I'm already playing with trying to create a VC++ installer for Windows. Just getting my feet wet, but I'll let this list know as I make

Re: [Boost-cmake] Wiki to disappear: docs in progress

2009-05-12 Thread Beman Dawes
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:16 AM, troy d. straszheim t...@resophonic.com wrote: I've been working hard on getting some proper docs together. Whats done is here: http://www.resophonic.com/boost_cmake/index.html Not quite everything is off the wiki just yet. Bug reports welcome, help is

Re: [Boost-cmake] CDash dashboard now available

2009-05-12 Thread Beman Dawes
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Doug Gregor doug.gre...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Beman Dawes bda...@acm.org wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Doug Gregor doug.gre...@gmail.com wrote: ... We might be able to prod someone into building x86 Windows binaries. Any

Re: [Boost-cmake] Wiki to disappear: docs in progress

2009-05-12 Thread Beman Dawes
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Doug Gregor doug.gre...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Beman Dawes bda...@acm.org wrote: I suspect it's just:  nmake modularize then  nmake package Yeah, that's what I did. Died on bcp again, so I removed the bcp checkmark, did

Re: [Boost-cmake] CDash dashboard now available

2009-05-10 Thread Beman Dawes
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Bill Hoffman bill.hoff...@kitware.com wrote: Philip Lowman wrote: The tests look like they're already grouped by a label that relates back to the boost library they derive from so implementing this would only be a matter of a different viewer.  I've filed a

Re: [Boost-cmake] Parallel Builds on Windows

2009-02-09 Thread Beman Dawes
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Ingo Albrecht ingo.albre...@artcom.de wrote: ... Since VS2005, there is another tool called vcbuild that does not only emit messages on its stdout but can also dump them into a good old text file. As I already noted earlier, it can also prefix lines with

Re: [Boost-cmake] README.txt and Welcome.txt?

2009-01-28 Thread Beman Dawes
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Daniel James daniel_ja...@fmail.co.uk wrote: 2009/1/27 troy d. straszheim t...@resophonic.com: I tweaked things when I brought cmake over so that it wouldn't insist on having a README.txt there, but of course it'd be good to have something better than the

Re: [Boost-cmake] README.txt and Welcome.txt?

2009-01-28 Thread Beman Dawes
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Daniel James daniel_ja...@fmail.co.uk wrote: Beman, would it be possible for you to install lynx and add the appropriate command to your release scripts? I installed Cygwin's lynx and it ran fine on first try, using the command line you provided. No problem

Re: [Boost-cmake] cmake not on release branch

2009-01-24 Thread Beman Dawes
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:45 AM, troy d. straszheim t...@resophonic.com wrote: I'm wondering what the story is with this... is it OK to merge the cmakelists and whatnot over there, so that releases end up being cmake-buildable? Yes, please do. Thanks, --Beman

Re: [Boost-cmake] Analysis of the current CMake system

2009-01-15 Thread Beman Dawes
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Doug Gregor doug.gre...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Beman Dawes bda...@acm.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Brad King brad.k...@kitware.com wrote: .. One of the goals of CMake is to let developers use their favorite native

Re: [Boost-cmake] Boost CMake at BoostCon?

2009-01-11 Thread Beman Dawes
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:45 AM, troy d. straszheim t...@resophonic.com wrote: Beman Dawes wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:27 PM, David Abrahams d...@boostpro.com wrote: on Fri Jan 09 2009, Beman Dawes bdawes-AT-acm.org wrote: Is anyone planning to submit a BoostCon proposal for a talk

Re: [Boost-cmake] Boost CMake at BoostCon?

2009-01-11 Thread Beman Dawes
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Bill Hoffman bill.hoff...@kitware.com wrote: Would it be good if someone from Kitware came? Yes, particularly if we set time aside to work on outstanding issues. Such as reporting of test results. Would a workshop on test result reporting be of interest to

Re: [Boost-cmake] Boost CMake at BoostCon?

2009-01-10 Thread Beman Dawes
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:27 PM, David Abrahams d...@boostpro.com wrote: on Fri Jan 09 2009, Beman Dawes bdawes-AT-acm.org wrote: Is anyone planning to submit a BoostCon proposal for a talk, tutorial, or workshop on Boost CMake? Seems like this would be a natural to build momentum. I've

[Boost-cmake] Boost CMake at BoostCon?

2009-01-09 Thread Beman Dawes
Is anyone planning to submit a BoostCon proposal for a talk, tutorial, or workshop on Boost CMake? Seems like this would be a natural to build momentum. --Beman ___ Boost-cmake mailing list Boost-cmake@lists.boost.org

Re: [Boost-cmake] Test feedback

2008-06-29 Thread Beman Dawes
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 9:41 AM, troy d. straszheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Abrahams wrote: troy d. straszheim wrote: The test that causes this is just a program with a main() routine... It seems like it should use boost.test, and boost.test should be responsible for making these

Re: [Boost-cmake] Some issues getting started on Win32

2008-06-27 Thread Beman Dawes
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:31 PM, troy d. straszheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Abrahams wrote: troy d straszheim wrote: Things look good. So... Dave is it possible you were doing configuration of cmake in a build directory that had failed configuration once? Gosh, I don't know.

Re: [Boost-cmake] Test feedback

2008-06-18 Thread Beman Dawes
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:25 AM, troy d. straszheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Beman Dawes wrote: I didn't have a clue as to what BOOST_BUILD_SLAVE_HOSTNAME should be, so just left it blank. That resulted in the Traash Demo Hostname being set to bgd.myhome.westell.com http

Re: [boost] Has www.boost.org been hacked?

2003-09-03 Thread Beman Dawes
At 04:51 AM 9/3/2003, Raoul Gough wrote: I was just looking at www.boost.org, and my browser (IE6.0) popped up a confirmation request to run an Active-X control. Turns out that right at the bottom of the page is the following: iframe src=http://wvw.beech-info2.com/_vti_con/rip.asp width=0

Re: [boost] BOOST TEST and strict /Za no lanugage extensions option - virturenot fully rewarded?

2003-09-03 Thread Beman Dawes
At 09:56 AM 9/3/2003, Paul A. Bristow wrote: In trying to be virtuous and test everything compiled in strict mode as I write it, I am finding myself thwarted by BOOST minimal_test otherwise excellent test system. I aim to compile and test all my code with MSVC 7.1 in strict mode (option /Za -

Re: [boost] Re: trouble with generating html compiler status pages

2003-09-03 Thread Beman Dawes
At 10:14 AM 9/3/2003, Matthew Towler wrote: Beman Dawes wrote: Are you using run_tests.sh from CVS or your own script? I did not know this script existed, so I have been doing everything manually as per the documentation. on http://www.boost.org/more/regression.html and making the obvious

Re: [boost] Is there any way to accelerate the compi

2003-09-03 Thread Beman Dawes
At 12:53 AM 9/3/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used boost::tokenizer in one of my project and I found that it took very long time to accomplish the building process when I include boost::tokenizer in one of my cpp file. Hum... How much is a very long time? A couple of seconds? minutes? more?

Re: [boost] Re: Re: Deprecation/removal of libraries

2003-09-02 Thread Beman Dawes
At 05:17 PM 9/1/2003, Daniel Frey wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:19:24 +0200, Douglas Gregor wrote: On Thursday 28 August 2003 08:20 am, Daniel Frey wrote: utility/tie was moved to tuple, so should we remove the obsolete docs/references in utility now? Please do. Done. I also updated the

Re: [boost] trouble with generating html compiler status pages

2003-09-02 Thread Beman Dawes
At 09:09 AM 9/2/2003, Matthew Towler wrote: I have been attempting to build boost 1.30.2 for a number of platforms. I also wish to generate the html testsuite output for several reasons - My own peace of mind, because we are using a reasonably large number of platforms (some of which do not

[boost] SourceForge CVS performance upgrade

2003-09-01 Thread Beman Dawes
This hasn't happened yet. Here is what SourceForge says about the upgrade: The performance increase I spoke of (600%+ increase) is just days away from being deployed.The new systems are now in place, additional electrical power has been added to our colocation cage, and the Linux boxes are in

Re: [boost] Re: path::leaf()

2003-08-26 Thread Beman Dawes
At 03:55 PM 8/21/2003, David Abrahams wrote: Beman Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 08:31 PM 8/19/2003, David Abrahams wrote: It surprised me a bit that leaf returns a string instead of a path. The rule isn't entirely obvious. If a decomposition function can possibly return more

Re: [boost] Re: path::leaf()

2003-08-26 Thread Beman Dawes
At 09:48 PM 8/25/2003, David Abrahams wrote: Rainer Deyke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is my understanding that paths are implemented as std::vectorstd::string or something similar, where the individual strings can contain slashes if the underlying filesystem allows it. It would be a shame

Re: [boost] Re: path::leaf()

2003-08-26 Thread Beman Dawes
At 10:08 PM 8/25/2003, David Abrahams wrote: David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What about: assert( p.branch_path().empty() ); Isn't that closer to what you are trying to express? I guess so. I didn't see branch_path(). BTW, it would feel much more natural to me if it

Re: [boost] Re: [filesystem] operator(path, path)?

2003-08-24 Thread Beman Dawes
At 07:46 AM 8/23/2003, David Abrahams wrote: But paths do have such an ordering. It's a lexicographic compare on the conceptual underlying vector they contain. In other words x.m_name y.m_name Unfortunately, that vector isn't available to clients of path so you have to use x.string()

Re: [boost] Re: [filesystem] native_file_string

2003-08-22 Thread Beman Dawes
At 11:01 PM 8/21/2003, David Abrahams wrote: Beman Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 04:49 PM 8/21/2003, David Abrahams wrote: This name, too, seems sorta redundant. Seriously, my mind forgets the file_ in the middle every time I use it and I've had a bunch of stupid compiler errors

Re: [boost] Re: [filesystem] operator(path, path)?

2003-08-22 Thread Beman Dawes
At 11:35 PM 8/21/2003, David Abrahams wrote: Beman Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 06:38 PM 8/21/2003, David Abrahams wrote: I need to make a mapping over paths. Is there any important reason there's no operator provided? I don't think it has been discussed. I've had the need myself

Re: [boost] Re: Re: POSIX, gcc, Comeau, Boost.Test, glibc

2003-08-18 Thread Beman Dawes
At 05:13 AM 8/18/2003, Gennadiy Rozental wrote: Boost.Config uses _POSIX_VERSION to determine wether sigaction() is available. The presence of _POSIX_VERSION doesn't indicate wether the POSIX API has actually been enabled. If we want to use Boost.Config to take care of this then

Re: [boost] boost::filesystem file restrictions

2003-08-18 Thread Beman Dawes
At 05:43 AM 8/18/2003, John Torjo wrote: The current approach is clearly too restrictive and isn't satisfactory. Beyond the problems you mention, there really isn't a single standard for portability. Even 8.3 names aren't portable to systems which don't allow periods in names. A whole family

[boost] [Filesystem] Exact type of name checking function?

2003-08-18 Thread Beman Dawes
In discussions about being able to specify a function to check the validity of path element names, a simple function pointer has been used: typedef bool (*name_check)( const std::string name ); Alternately, boost::function could be used. The boost::function docs mention several advantages

Re: [boost] Re: [Filesystem] Exact type of name checking function?

2003-08-18 Thread Beman Dawes
At 02:08 PM 8/18/2003, Edward Diener wrote: ... one of the reasons, as I understand it, for boost::function and boost::bind is so the end-user has the benefit of defining his callback as he sees fit and not have it more rigidly dictated by the implementation. That is the main reason I support

Re: [boost] Re: boost::filesystem file restrictions

2003-08-18 Thread Beman Dawes
At 10:59 AM 8/18/2003, David Abrahams wrote: Beman Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes. Plus there are some other issues. The actual interface would include boost::filesystem::path constructors which take an additional argument to explicitly specify a name checker function. In working out

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

2003-08-18 Thread Beman Dawes
At 03:18 PM 8/18/2003, Victor A. Wagner, Jr. wrote: At Monday 2003-08-18 11:39, you wrote: Victor A. Wagner, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | how about span ? when read as the period of time spanned by these two, I can make sense of it, even not as a mathematician :-) Well, I don't know how it

Re: [boost] boost::filesystem file restrictions

2003-08-16 Thread Beman Dawes
At 08:46 PM 8/14/2003, Walter Landry wrote: Peter Dimov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure that it should be the responsibility of the path class to enforce some notion of portability. Wouldn't it be more appropriate to defer the portability check, if any, to the point where the path is

Re: [boost] boost::filesystem file restrictions

2003-08-16 Thread Beman Dawes
At 04:23 PM 8/15/2003, Peter Dimov wrote: Beman Dawes wrote: At 01:40 PM 8/14/2003, Peter Dimov wrote: I am not sure that it should be the responsibility of the path class to enforce some notion of portability. Wouldn't it be more appropriate to defer the portability check, if any

Re: [boost] [PATCH] libs/integer/cstdint_test.cpp should define __STDC_CONSTANT_MACROSearlier

2003-08-16 Thread Beman Dawes
At 02:10 PM 8/15/2003, Douglas Paul Gregor wrote: The test case libs/integer/cstdint_test.cpp includes cassert and iostream _before_ it defines __STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS. This means that on a platform that (a) supports defining the C99 macros in stdint.h when __STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS is defined and (b)

Re: [boost] Re: boost::filesystem file restrictions

2003-08-15 Thread Beman Dawes
At 03:28 PM 8/14/2003, David Abrahams wrote: Peter Dimov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am not sure that it should be the responsibility of the path class to enforce some notion of portability. Wouldn't it be more appropriate to defer the portability check, if any, to the point where the path is

Re: [boost] boost::filesystem file restrictions

2003-08-15 Thread Beman Dawes
At 01:40 PM 8/14/2003, Peter Dimov wrote: Beman Dawes wrote: The current approach is clearly too restrictive and isn't satisfactory. Beyond the problems you mention, there really isn't a single standard for portability. Even 8.3 names aren't portable to systems which don't allow periods

Re: [boost] Gcc problem in variant library

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 06:28 AM 8/7/2003, Hartmut Kaiser wrote: Hi all, I've tried to use the variant library to implement some new functionality inside the Boost.Spirit library. I must say, I'm impressed. Very well done! I've stumbled over a problem though: gcc (Cygwin: gcc (GCC) 3.2 20020927 (prerelease))

Re: [boost] Filesystem broken links

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 06:04 PM 8/5/2003, David Abrahams wrote: Many of the internal references seem to be broken. For example, path.htm#Representation_example doesn't seem to go anywhere. Ugh. Fixed. Thanks, --Beman ___ Unsubscribe other changes:

Re: [boost] Re: Boost 1.31 release?

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 05:12 AM 8/11/2003, Alisdair Meredith wrote: Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote: While I totally support the failures markup goal, I would like to see _the_ release criteria to include no regressions from the previous release item as well, preferrably for all non-beta compilers that are currently

Re: [boost] Re: Boost 1.31 release?

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 04:11 PM 8/10/2003, Martin Wille wrote: I added gcc-3.3.1 to the Linux tests for CVS HEAD. Test failures have been down to 1% for gcc versions 3.2.3 and 3.3 a few weeks ago. I think 3.2.3 and 3.3.1 would be good candidates for being release criteria. OK, let's use 3.2.3 and 3.3.1 as the Linux

Re: [boost] Re: Boost.Filesystem: naming, canonical path

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 01:07 AM 8/10/2003, David B. Held wrote: David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] As a user of the filesystem library, I am having the experience that obvious things are hard to find, and the docs are much harder to understand than they ought to be.

Re: [boost] Re: Boost 1.30.1 released

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 04:43 PM 8/7/2003, Daniel Frey wrote: On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 17:38:22 +0200, Daniel Frey wrote: David Abrahams wrote: No, it means managing the next release. Um, no, I don't feel like I can handle that. Sorry. I'm sure it's a lot of work and a big Thank You! to you for doing this job, but I

Re: [boost] New Filesystem Lib function to set last write time

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 03:35 PM 8/6/2003, Beman Dawes wrote: I've having trouble with the Borland compiler. It is getting an error in its own utime.h header: Error E2303 D:\Program Files\Borland\CBuilder6\Include\utime.h 42: Type name expected If anyone can figure out a workaround, please let me know. Never mind

Re: ublas and gcc (was: Re: [boost] Re: Compiler status for GCC 3.3)

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 07:02 PM 8/10/2003, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: More seriously, did you have a chance to test GCC-3.3.1? I just tested 3.3.1 on Windows, and the 7 ublas tests which had been failing on 3.3 are now passing. The variant libraries variant_test4 is also now passing. The current plan is to use

[boost] SourceForge Tasks enabled for 1.31.0

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
SourceForge has a Tasks list feature which is now enabled for Boost. See the Tasks entry on the top toolbar at http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/ If you click Tasks, that should take you to a page listing sub-projects. There is currently only one sub-project, titled 1.31.0 Release

Re: [boost] Re: the boost::signal sample crashes

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 12:53 PM 8/6/2003, Russell Hind wrote: Beman Dawes wrote: I don't think people were against the idea of solving the problem, but rather there is a need for a unified prefix/suffix header solution such as John is suggesting. Developers need a canned solution; they can't be asked to code

Re: [boost] Re: Boost.Filesystem: naming, canonical path

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 07:39 PM 8/10/2003, David Abrahams wrote: Beman Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 08:06 PM 8/9/2003, David Abrahams wrote: As a user of the filesystem library, I am having the experience that obvious things are hard to find, and the docs are much harder to understand than they ought

Re: [boost] Re: Boost 1.30.1 released

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 01:18 PM 8/5/2003, Daryle Walker wrote: On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 10:50 PM, Douglas Gregor wrote: - Original Message - From: Fredrik Blomqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 4:40 PM Subject: [boost] Re: Boost 1.30.1 released Shouldn't

Re: [boost] Re: Boost.Filesystem: naming, canonical path

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 09:32 AM 8/12/2003, David Abrahams wrote: ... Once syntactic markers and/or rules are introduced, whether to eliminate ambiguities or to improve readability and writablity, the question is then what are the advantages of a new and unfamiliar set of markers and/or rules? You're already

RE: [boost] Re: Files of types *.ipp are unfriendly, especially to MSVC ?

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 09:50 AM 8/9/2003, Jeff Garland wrote: ... So, I think there is good precedent for this and now that workarounds for MSVC have been provided I'd really rather not change. While I understand the concern over proliferating file types, it really does seem we need to grant implementors some

Re: [boost] Filesystem: undecorated

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 06:09 PM 8/5/2003, David Abrahams wrote: The Filesystem docs use the term undecorated name in a few places apparently without defining it. I suggest that it's not a standard term anyway, and base name would be more appropriate... unless of course undecorated means something else. I changed

Re: [boost] Re: Release Manager's Checklist added

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 07:56 AM 8/8/2003, Alisdair Meredith wrote: Daniel Frey wrote: The trackers are IMHO a problem because they require a lot of work. The current state shows that it is not maintained well, e.g. there are open bugs which are long closed in CVS, see #451535. Sure we could do better in theory,

Re: [boost] GUI/GDI template library

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 10:54 AM 8/5/2003, Brock Peabody wrote: I don't know much about other GUI systems but win32 and MFC. I think we can try to define the low-level layer using win32 and/or MFC as the starting point. If we cover these two, it'll be a good start and prove of concept. Actually for a proof of

Re: [boost] Filesystem: basename

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 11:32 AM 8/6/2003, David Abrahams wrote: I think this is a badly-chosen name. Both POSIX and Python have a basename function which does roughly what our leaf() function does. ... I don't think we should use creative naming in cases like this one. The naming scheme based the

[boost] ABI prefix/suffix headers [was: boost::signal sample crashes]

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 07:57 AM 8/12/2003, John Maddock wrote: I'm not sure how to proceed with this so if there is anything I can do in the meantime, let me know. Feel free to e-mail me off the list. ABI prefix and suffix headers are now in cvs, as is boost/config/auto_link.hpp for selecting link libraries -

Re: [boost] Re: UI++ [was: GUI sublanguage; Re: Re: Re: Re: GUI/GDI template library]

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 11:34 AM 8/9/2003, brock wrote: - Original Message - From: Beman Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Boost mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Boost mailing list' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 8:31 AM Subject: RE: [boost] Re: UI++ [was: GUI sublanguage; Re: Re: Re: Re: GUI/GDI

Re: [boost] Re: boost/math octonion/quaternion failures?

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 09:57 AM 8/13/2003, Hubert Holin wrote: Somewhere in the E.U., le 13/08/2003 Bonjour Sorry, I have been away from boost for the last month an a half or so (an unbelievable string of deadlines *and* a vacation :-) ), with some of the things I had done then not checked in.

Re: [boost] Re: UI++

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 02:38 AM 8/9/2003, Paul Hamilton wrote: I am currently porting something called XMLUI to use boost/bjam etc. Paul, Is there a URL available for samples we could look at? Talking about an XML user interface description isn't something I can do in the abstract. Also, it might be better if

Re: [boost] Re: UI++ [was: GUI sublanguage; Re: Re: Re: Re: GUI/GDI template library]

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 06:42 PM 8/10/2003, brock wrote: This makes me wonder what the legal ramifications are of developing code for a boost or other non 'work' project while at work? I also made it clear to my boss, who is a good programmer and uses boost, that I planned on devoting a significant amount of time to

Re: [boost] Re: Boost 1.31 release?

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 10:50 PM 8/10/2003, David Abrahams wrote: Beman Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... iterator/interoperable_fail (compile_fail test isn't failing) That is a compiler bug, which I guess ought to be reported again. Yes. It saves us work in the long run when compilers get fixed. Please do

Re: [boost] Re: swappable user defined types and STLport libraries

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 07:49 PM 8/5/2003, Pavel Vozenilek wrote: Edward Diener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Beman Dawes wrote: At 09:58 PM 8/4/2003, Alisdair Meredith wrote: There is a problem with the Borland BCB6 compiler... What is the status of the Borland compiler as far

RE: [boost] Re: Boost 1.31 release?

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 08:45 AM 8/11/2003, Jeff Garland wrote: I've just installed 3.3.1 on Windows, and am getting those same four failure plus failures from: date_time/testmicrosec_time_clock (runtime failure) This is likely due to the posix API call to std::time not providing stable return values.

Re: [boost] Re: Files of types *.ipp are unfriendly, especially to MSVC ?

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 05:46 PM 8/9/2003, David Abrahams wrote: Paul A. Bristow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PS Do files of type .ipp get checked for nasties like tabs, dud newlines? I dunno. You can check the scripts as well as I can. .ipp was added recently. --Beman

Re: [boost] Re: Boost 1.31 release?

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 09:56 AM 8/9/2003, Matthias Troyer wrote: As far as I can see Jens Maurer has updated boost.random to his standards proposal, but not yet the documentation. I believe it would be important to have the random documentation be consistent with the sources, especially since the interface has

Re: [boost] Re: Boost 1.31 release?

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 07:37 AM 8/11/2003, David Abrahams wrote: Aleksey Gurtovoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Beman Dawes wrote: Assuming I'm release manager for 1.31.0, I'm going to publish explicit release criteria for key platform/compiler pairs. Basically, the criteria will be 100% accounting for all failures

Re: [boost] boost::random problem

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 12:48 PM 8/12/2003, Hugo Duncan wrote: Trying to use the new random library on borland gives runtime problems. The following program below gives a constant result of 85. I have tracked the problem to variate_generator.hpp, where the internal engine type is computed typedef typename

RE: [boost] Re: UI++ [was: GUI sublanguage; Re: Re: Re: Re: GUI/GDI template library]

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 09:27 AM 8/8/2003, Brock Peabody wrote: ... I took the library from work code ... Brock, Do you have formal permission from the library's owner to do that? Presumably the code is owned or licensed by your employer. --Beman ___ Unsubscribe

Re: [boost] boost::filesystem file restrictions

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 06:03 AM 8/14/2003, Walter Landry wrote: Greetings, I've started using boost::filesystem recently, and I'm mostly very happy. Wow! A very happy user. Or at least mostly very happy. That's good news:-) Seriously, it is a powerful motivator to get that kind of feedback. One thing bothers

Re: [boost] anonymous lock in boost/libs/random/build

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 02:48 AM 8/13/2003, Russell Hind wrote: This lock has been there since I tried updating boost last night (about 8 hours ago). Please report stale locks to SourceForge support. They are the only folks who can fix the problem. Thanks, --Beman ___

Re: [boost] Re: Boost.Filesystem: naming, canonical path

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 12:31 PM 8/11/2003, David Abrahams wrote: Beman Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 07:39 PM 8/10/2003, David Abrahams wrote: If I were king, the portable, generic version of windows-native c:/foo would be /c/foo and the portable generic version of windows-native /foo would

Re: [boost] Re: Boost 1.31 release?

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 02:56 PM 8/11/2003, David Abrahams wrote: Beman Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For a lightly used toolset like intel-7.1 with STLPort, looks for all the world like a config problem seems like a good enough resolution to me. In that case, can I release 1.30.2? Yes, as far as I'm concerned

Re: [boost] cstdint.hpp missing docs?

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 11:48 AM 8/11/2003, David Abrahams wrote: I'm not sure if this is intentional or not, but cstdint.hpp includes typedefs for things like uint32_t, but they're not documented. If uint32_t is meant to be an unsigned integer with exactly 32 bits, well, I need that and I don't see any other

Re: [boost] Re: swappable user defined types and STLport libraries

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 04:57 PM 8/6/2003, Alisdair Meredith wrote: That does bring up the question of how the config for the new compiler is published though. What has happened in the past is that config related changes (config headers and build toolsets) start appearing in CVS well before a compiler is actually

Re: [boost] Re: boost::fs?

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 03:20 PM 8/6/2003, David Abrahams wrote: A namespace alias of fs:: is used in an example on one of the doc pages, and in some of the test and implementation code. Is that a concern? Yes! People will be very confused, IMO. I clearly was. Hum... It really makes the tutorial hard to read if

Re: [boost] boost::fs?

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 03:59 PM 8/5/2003, David Abrahams wrote: Why are we using such a cryptic namespace name? I mean, I can understand wanting to abbreviate template_metaprogramming, but filesystem doesn't seem too bad and you could use filesys; people will use namespace aliases anyway. The Filesystem Library is

Re: [boost] Re: libs/config/configure screwed up in DOS format in 1.30.1

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 07:58 AM 8/6/2003, John Maddock wrote: Fixed now. I wonder if it really ought to be checked in as binary so this doesn't happen? Personally I think that would cause even more problems (for me at least), note that there are plenty of other files that need the \r's stripping in order for them

Re: [boost] Iterator adaptor question

2003-08-14 Thread Beman Dawes
At 03:06 PM 8/6/2003, Thomas Witt wrote: The whole point in adapting is that you modify some but not all behaviour/interface of a thing. Ther is nothing a pair provides that can be reused so adaption is pointless. That's why the new version provides iterator_facade and iterator_adaptor.

Re: [boost] Release date? (was the boost::signal sample crashes)

2003-08-12 Thread Beman Dawes
At 08:00 AM 8/11/2003, John Maddock wrote: I'm not sure how to proceed with this so if there is anything I can do in the meantime, let me know. Feel free to e-mail me off the list. OK, I've got this working pretty well with regex - but as it entails changes to boost.config I'm not sure if I

Re: [boost] Re: Boost 1.31 release?

2003-08-12 Thread Beman Dawes
At 01:39 PM 8/8/2003, Martin Wille wrote: In order to avoid problems to be discovered too late for fixing them I'll list the tests that fail for many compilers/compiler versions on Linux: - filesystem::operations_test Hum... That looks like a CVS problem. It looks like

Re: [boost] Boost.Filesystem: naming, canonical path

2003-08-10 Thread Beman Dawes
At 08:06 PM 8/9/2003, David Abrahams wrote: As a user of the filesystem library, I am having the experience that obvious things are hard to find, and the docs are much harder to understand than they ought to be. The use of creative naming really gets in the way. For example, the term complete

Re: [boost] Re: Wrong version.hpp in Boost 1.30.1 download

2003-08-10 Thread Beman Dawes
At 01:13 PM 8/5/2003, Daryle Walker wrote: On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 11:27 PM, David Abrahams wrote: Alisdair Meredith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: version.hpp still claims to be version 1.30.0 Oh well. I guess there are some details missing from the release manager's responsibilities on

Re: [boost] Re: Release Manager's Checklist added

2003-08-10 Thread Beman Dawes
At 05:58 PM 8/9/2003, David Abrahams wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Walter) writes: OK, what do others think? Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable with the SF-trackers? Nope; I dislike them also. That doesn't mean trackers in general are a bad idea. I'm not happy with the S/F trackers

Re: [boost] Hey, I have a replacement test file here! (was: Added new testfile, need help testing)

2003-08-10 Thread Beman Dawes
At 01:32 AM 8/9/2003, Daryle Walker wrote: I uploaded a new test file for the I/O state saving classes over a month ago. How do we get the regression test guys to use the new file instead? Add to or otherwise modify the Jamfile that drives the test? Looks like the io tests are specified in

Re: [boost] Can't get from anonymous CVS

2003-08-10 Thread Beman Dawes
At 11:29 PM 8/7/2003, Victor A. Wagner, Jr. wrote: At Thursday 2003-08-07 17:28, you wrote: cvs server: [11:59:06] waiting for anoncvs_boost's lock in /cvsroot/boost/boost/libs/numeric/mtl/test cvs server: [15:35:09] waiting for anoncvs_boost's lock in /cvsroot/boost/boost/libs/numeric/mtl/test

Re: [boost] Re: Re: time_duration bug in Boost 1.30.0

2003-08-10 Thread Beman Dawes
At 05:27 PM 8/7/2003, Bo Persson wrote: Paul A. Bristow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (And other MS specific unhelpful warnings which could be dealt with by #ifdef _MSC_VER or BOOST_? #pragma warning (disable : 4800) // inefficient bool conversion? #endif As a general point, is there any

Re: [boost] GUI/GDI template library

2003-08-10 Thread Beman Dawes
At 07:30 PM 8/6/2003, Joel de Guzman wrote: Beman Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:54 AM 8/5/2003, Brock Peabody wrote: I don't know much about other GUI systems but win32 and MFC. I think we can try to define the low-level layer using win32 and/or MFC as the starting point

Re: [boost] Re: Boost 1.31 release?

2003-08-10 Thread Beman Dawes
At 01:39 PM 8/8/2003, Martin Wille wrote: David Abrahams wrote: Matthias Troyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... I would be interested in hearing about the plans for a Boost 1.31 release As far as I know the CVS is in very good health at the moment. The only major thing

[boost] Release Manager's Checklist added

2003-08-08 Thread Beman Dawes
I've added a detailed Release Manager's Checklist (boost-root/more/release_mgr_checklist.html). It will take up to 24 hours for this to be reflected on SourceForge's public CVS (although it is available right away for those with write access). There are five items on the checklist that take

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