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| 11 | <div class="document" id="review-wizard-status-report-for-april-2006"> |
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| 12 | <h1 class="title">Review Wizard Status Report for April 2006</h1> |
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| 13 | <div class="section" id="news"> |
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| 14 | <h1><a name="news">News</a></h1> |
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| 15 | <p>April 1, 2006 -- The "Promotion Traits" Review Begins (Fast-Track) |
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| 16 | Proposal to add promote, integral_promotion and |
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| 17 | floating_point_promotion class templates to type_traits library.</p> |
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| 18 | <p>April 6, 2006 -- The "Function Types" Review Begins (Fast-Track) |
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| 19 | This library provides a metaprogramming facility |
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| 20 | to classify, decompose and synthesize function-, function pointer-, |
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| 21 | function reference- and member function pointer types.</p> |
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| 22 | <p>March 22, 2006 -- Asio Accepted |
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| 23 | Announcement: <a class="reference" href="http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2006/03/102287.php">http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2006/03/102287.php</a></p> |
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| 24 | <p>February 17, 2006 - Shared Memory Library Accepted |
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| 25 | Announcement: <a class="reference" href="http://lists.boost.org/boost-announce/2006/02/0083.php">http://lists.boost.org/boost-announce/2006/02/0083.php</a></p> |
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| 26 | <p>February 5, 2006 - Fixed String Library Rejected |
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| 27 | Announcement: <a class="reference" href="http://lists.boost.org/boost-announce/2006/02/0081.php">http://lists.boost.org/boost-announce/2006/02/0081.php</a></p> |
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| 28 | <p>We need experienced review managers. Please take a look at |
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| 29 | the list of libraries in need of managers and check out their |
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| 30 | descriptions. If you can serve as review manager for any of |
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| 31 | them, email Ron Garcia or Tom Brinkman "garcia at cs dot indiana dot edu" |
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| 32 | and "reportbase at gmail dot com" respectively.</p> |
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| 33 | <p>A link to this report will be posted to www.boost.org. |
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| 34 | If you would like us to make any modifications or additions to this |
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| 35 | report before we do that, please email Ron or Tom.</p> |
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| 36 | <p>If you're library author and plan on submitting a library for review |
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| 37 | in the next 3-6 months, send Ron or Tom a |
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| 38 | short description of your library and we'll add it to the |
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| 39 | Libraries Under Construction below. We know that there are many |
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| 40 | libaries that are near completion, but we have hard time keeping |
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| 41 | track all of them. Please keep us informed about your progress.</p> |
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| 42 | </div> |
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| 43 | <div class="section" id="review-queue"> |
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| 44 | <h1><a name="review-queue">Review Queue</a></h1> |
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| 45 | <blockquote> |
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| 46 | <ul class="simple"> |
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| 47 | <li>Promotion Traits - April 1, 2006 (fast-track)</li> |
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| 48 | <li>Function Types - April 6, 2006 (fast-track)</li> |
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| 49 | <li>Fusion</li> |
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| 50 | <li>Pimpl Pointer</li> |
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| 51 | <li>Property Tree</li> |
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| 52 | <li>Physical Quantities System</li> |
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| 53 | <li>Intrusive Containers</li> |
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| 54 | </ul> |
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| 55 | </blockquote> |
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| 56 | <hr class="docutils" /> |
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| 57 | <div class="section" id="function-types-mini-re-review"> |
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| 58 | <h2><a name="function-types-mini-re-review">Function Types (mini-re-review)</a></h2> |
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| 59 | <blockquote> |
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| 60 | <table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> |
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| 61 | <col class="field-name" /> |
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| 62 | <col class="field-body" /> |
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| 63 | <tbody valign="top"> |
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| 64 | <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Tobias Schwinger</td> |
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| 65 | </tr> |
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| 66 | <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Tom Brinkman</td> |
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| 67 | </tr> |
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| 68 | <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/vault/">http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/vault/</a></td> |
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| 69 | </tr> |
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| 70 | <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">This library provides a metaprogramming facility to classify, |
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| 71 | decompose and synthesize function-, function pointer-, function |
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| 72 | reference- and member function pointer types. For the purpose of |
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| 73 | this documentation, these types are collectively referred to as |
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| 74 | function types (this differs from the standard definition and |
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| 75 | redefines the term from a programmer's perspective to refer to |
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| 76 | the most common types that involve functions).</p> |
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| 77 | <p>The classes introduced by this library shall conform to the |
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| 78 | concepts of the Boost Metaprogramming library (MPL).</p> |
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| 79 | <dl class="docutils"> |
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| 80 | <dt>The Function Types library enables the user to:</dt> |
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| 81 | <dd><ul class="first last simple"> |
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| 82 | <li>test an arbitrary type for being a function type of specified kind,</li> |
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| 83 | <li>inspect properties of function types,</li> |
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| 84 | <li>view and modify sub types of an encapsulated function type with |
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| 85 | MPL Sequence operations, and</li> |
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| 86 | <li>synthesize function types.</li> |
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| 87 | </ul> |
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| 88 | </dd> |
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| 89 | </dl> |
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| 90 | <p class="last">This library supports variadic functions and can be configured |
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| 91 | to support non-default calling conventions.</p> |
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| 92 | </td> |
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| 93 | </tr> |
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| 94 | </tbody> |
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| 95 | </table> |
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| 96 | </blockquote> |
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| 97 | </div> |
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| 98 | <div class="section" id="promotion-traits"> |
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| 99 | <h2><a name="promotion-traits">Promotion Traits</a></h2> |
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| 100 | <blockquote> |
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| 101 | <table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> |
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| 102 | <col class="field-name" /> |
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| 103 | <col class="field-body" /> |
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| 104 | <tbody valign="top"> |
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| 105 | <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Alexander Nasonov</td> |
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| 106 | </tr> |
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| 107 | <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Tobias Schwinger</td> |
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| 108 | </tr> |
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| 109 | <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://cpp-experiment.sourceforge.net/promote-20050917.tar.gz">http://cpp-experiment.sourceforge.net/promote-20050917.tar.gz</a></td> |
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| 110 | </tr> |
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| 111 | <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Proposal to add promote, integral_promotion and |
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| 112 | floating_point_promotion class templates to type_traits library.</p> |
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| 113 | <p>Alexander tried it on different compilers with various success: |
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| 114 | GNU/Linux (gentoo-hardened): gcc 3.3 and 3.4, Intel 7, 8 and 9 |
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| 115 | Windows: VC7 free compiler |
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| 116 | Sparc Solaris: Sun C++ 5.3 and 5.7</p> |
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| 117 | <p class="last">See comments at the beginning of |
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| 118 | promote_enum_test.cpp for what is broken.</p> |
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| 119 | </td> |
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| 120 | </tr> |
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| 121 | </tbody> |
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| 122 | </table> |
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| 123 | </blockquote> |
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| 124 | </div> |
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| 125 | <div class="section" id="intrusive-containers"> |
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| 126 | <h2><a name="intrusive-containers">Intrusive Containers</a></h2> |
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| 127 | <blockquote> |
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| 128 | <table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> |
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| 129 | <col class="field-name" /> |
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| 130 | <col class="field-body" /> |
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| 131 | <tbody valign="top"> |
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| 132 | <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Olaf Krzikalla</td> |
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| 133 | </tr> |
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| 134 | <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Thorsten Ottosen</td> |
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| 135 | </tr> |
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| 136 | <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> |
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| 137 | </tr> |
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| 138 | <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 |
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| 139 | more and more forgotten in the C++-world due to the presence of the |
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| 140 | standard containers, which don't support intrusive |
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| 141 | techniques. Boost.Intrusive not only reintroduces this technique to |
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| 142 | C++, but also encapsulates the implementation in STL-like |
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| 143 | interfaces. Hence anyone familiar with standard containers can use |
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| 144 | intrusive containers with ease.</td> |
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| 145 | </tr> |
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| 146 | </tbody> |
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| 147 | </table> |
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| 148 | </blockquote> |
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| 149 | </div> |
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| 150 | <div class="section" id="fusion"> |
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| 151 | <h2><a name="fusion">Fusion</a></h2> |
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| 152 | <blockquote> |
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| 153 | <table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> |
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| 154 | <col class="field-name" /> |
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| 155 | <col class="field-body" /> |
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| 156 | <tbody valign="top"> |
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| 157 | <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Joel de Guzman</td> |
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| 158 | </tr> |
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| 159 | <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Ron Garcia</td> |
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| 160 | </tr> |
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| 161 | <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://spirit.sourceforge.net/dl_more/fusion_v2/">http://spirit.sourceforge.net/dl_more/fusion_v2/</a> |
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| 162 | <a class="reference" href="http://spirit.sourceforge.net/dl_more/fusion_v2.zip">http://spirit.sourceforge.net/dl_more/fusion_v2.zip</a></td> |
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| 163 | </tr> |
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| 164 | <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 |
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| 165 | algorithms. A set of heterogenous containers (vector, list, set and |
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| 166 | map) is provided out of the box along with view classes that present |
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| 167 | various composable views over the data. The containers and views |
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| 168 | follow a common sequence concept with an underlying iterator concept |
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| 169 | that binds it all together, suitably making the algorithms fully |
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| 170 | generic over all sequence types.</p> |
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| 171 | <p class="last">The architecture is somewhat modeled after MPL which in turn is |
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| 172 | modeled after STL. It is code-named "fusion" because the library is |
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| 173 | the "fusion" of compile time metaprogramming with runtime programming.</p> |
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| 174 | </td> |
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| 175 | </tr> |
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| 176 | </tbody> |
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| 177 | </table> |
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| 178 | </blockquote> |
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| 179 | </div> |
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| 180 | <div class="section" id="pimpl-pointer"> |
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| 181 | <h2><a name="pimpl-pointer">Pimpl Pointer</a></h2> |
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| 182 | <blockquote> |
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| 183 | <table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> |
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| 184 | <col class="field-name" /> |
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| 186 | <tbody valign="top"> |
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| 187 | <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Asger Mangaard</td> |
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| 188 | </tr> |
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| 189 | <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Need Volunteer</td> |
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| 190 | </tr> |
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| 191 | <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> |
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| 192 | </tr> |
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| 193 | <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 |
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| 194 | code coupling. It does so by moving private parts of a class from the |
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| 195 | .hpp file to the .cpp file. |
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| 196 | However, it's implementation can be tricky, and with many pitfalls |
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| 197 | (especially regarding memory management). |
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| 198 | The pimpl_ptr library is a single header file, implementing a special |
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| 199 | policy based smart pointer to greately ease the implementation of the |
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| 200 | pimpl idiom.</td> |
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| 201 | </tr> |
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| 202 | </tbody> |
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| 203 | </table> |
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| 204 | </blockquote> |
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| 205 | </div> |
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| 206 | <div class="section" id="property-tree"> |
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| 207 | <h2><a name="property-tree">Property Tree</a></h2> |
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| 208 | <blockquote> |
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| 209 | <table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> |
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| 210 | <col class="field-name" /> |
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| 212 | <tbody valign="top"> |
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| 213 | <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Marcin Kalicinski</td> |
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| 214 | </tr> |
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| 215 | <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Need Volunteer</td> |
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| 216 | </tr> |
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| 217 | <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body">Boost Sandbox Vault - property_tree_rev4.zip |
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| 218 | <a class="reference" href="http://kaalus.atspace.com/ptree">http://kaalus.atspace.com/ptree</a></td> |
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| 219 | </tr> |
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| 220 | <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">Property tree is a data structure - a tree of (key, value) |
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| 221 | pairs. It differs from its cousin, "usual" property map, because |
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| 222 | it is hierarchical, not linear. Thus, it is more like a |
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| 223 | minimalistic Document Object Model, but not bound to any |
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| 224 | specific file format. It can store contents of XML files, |
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| 225 | windows registry, JSON files, INI files, even command line |
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| 226 | parameters. The library contains parsers for all these formats, |
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| 227 | and more.</td> |
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| 228 | </tr> |
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| 229 | </tbody> |
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| 230 | </table> |
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| 231 | </blockquote> |
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| 232 | </div> |
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| 233 | <div class="section" id="physical-quantities-system"> |
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| 234 | <h2><a name="physical-quantities-system">Physical Quantities System</a></h2> |
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| 235 | <blockquote> |
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| 236 | <table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> |
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| 237 | <col class="field-name" /> |
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| 239 | <tbody valign="top"> |
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| 240 | <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Andy Little</td> |
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| 241 | </tr> |
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| 242 | <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Need Volunteer</td> |
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| 243 | </tr> |
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| 244 | <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://tinyurl.com/7m5l8">http://tinyurl.com/7m5l8</a></td> |
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| 245 | </tr> |
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| 246 | <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">PQS (Physical Quantities System) is used for modelling |
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| 247 | physical-quantities in C++ programs. The advantages over using |
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| 248 | built-in types in the role include: trapping errors in |
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| 249 | dimensional analysis, detailed semantic specifications for |
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| 250 | reliable and repeatable conversions between units and |
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| 251 | self-documentation of source code. PQS is based around the |
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| 252 | principles and guidelines of the International System of Units |
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| 253 | (SI). The library predefines a large number of quantities, |
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| 254 | physical and maths constants using a common syntax. The library |
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| 255 | also includes (or will soon include) classes for manipulating |
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| 256 | quantities algebraically, for example angles (radians, |
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| 257 | steradians, degrees,minutes,seconds) and vectors, matrices and |
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| 258 | quaternions for more advanced modelling of physical systems.</td> |
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| 259 | </tr> |
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| 260 | </tbody> |
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| 261 | </table> |
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| 262 | </blockquote> |
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| 263 | </div> |
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| 264 | </div> |
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| 265 | <div class="section" id="libraries-under-development"> |
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| 266 | <h1><a name="libraries-under-development">Libraries under development</a></h1> |
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| 267 | <p>Geometry Library - Author - Andy Little (?)</p> |
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| 268 | <p>C2_functions Library - Author - Marcus Mendenhall</p> |
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| 269 | <p>Please let us know of any libraries you are currently |
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| 270 | developing that you intend to submit for review.</p> |
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