2008/11/2 Daniel James <daniel_ja...@fmail.co.uk>:
> 2008/11/2 Beman Dawes <bda...@acm.org>:
>>
>> Unless README.txt can be updated automatically, it is going to be a
>> maintenance problem for release managers.
>
> The release announcement is a quickbook file, so it should be possible
> to generate a plain text file from it (or if that's too tricky we
> could use lynx to generate text from html, it does a reasonable job).
Sorry, I'm just getting to this now. Generating plain text from
quickbook is actually quite tricky. There doesn't seem to be any
solutions for generating plain text from docbook. I had a go at
converting Rene's bbook2rss script to generate text, with reasonable
results, but don't fancy maintaining it. So I think using lynx is the
way to go. I've just checked a small php page into the beta site that
will display the release announcement in plain html, so that lynx can
generate a text file from it. The command line to do this is:
lynx -dump -nolist
http://beta.boost.org/users/history/minimal.php/version_1_37_0 >
README.txt
I've attached the output for 1.37. Does it seem okay? Is there
anything else I should add? Maybe some extra text at the start.
Beman, would it be possible for you to install lynx and add the
appropriate command to your release scripts? If you can't, I could
generate this file along with the documentation. I expect we'll need
to set this up for 1.38 since the cmake files are included in the
release.
Daniel
Version 1.37.0
November 3rd, 2008 12:00 GMT
New Libraries
* Proto:
+ Expression template library and compiler construction toolkit
for domain-specific embedded languages, from Eric Niebler.
Updated Libraries
* Asio:
+ Enhanced CompletionCondition concept with the signature size_t
CompletionCondition(error_code ec, size_t total), where the
return value indicates the maximum number of bytes to be
transferred on the next read or write operation. (The old
CompletionCondition signature is still supported for backwards
compatibility).
+ New windows::overlapped_ptr class to allow arbitrary
overlapped I/O functions (such as TransmitFile) to be used
with Asio.
+ On recent versions of Linux, an eventfd descriptor is now used
(rather than a pipe) to interrupt a blocked select/epoll
reactor.
+ Added const overloads of lowest_layer().
+ Synchronous read, write, accept and connect operations are now
thread safe (meaning that it is now permitted to perform
concurrent synchronous operations on an individual socket, if
supported by the OS).
+ Reactor-based io_service implementations now use lazy
initialisation to reduce the memory usage of an io_service
object used only as a message queue.
* Circular Buffer:
+ Added new methods is_linearized() and rotate(const_iterator).
+ Minor bug fixes and documentation updates.
* Dynamic Bitset:
+ Constructor "do the right thing" dispatch, a la standard
sequence containers (follows the proposed resolution of
library issue 438, currently in the C++0x working paper).
+ Improvements to documentation, code examples and
implementation.
* Exception:
+ Support for non-RTTI builds.
+ Optimizations.
+ A new macro BOOST_THROW_EXCEPTION which can be used instead of
boost::throw_exception when throwing, to automatically record
information about the location of the throw in the exception
object.
* Hash:
+ Minor bug fix (ticket 2264).
* Interprocess:
+ Added placement insertion (emplace(), emplace_back()...)
methods to containers.
+ Containers can be used now in recursive types.
+ Minor bug fixes.
* Intrusive:
+ Intrusive now takes advantage of compilers with variadic
templates.
+ clone_from functions now copy predicates and hash functions of
associative containers.
+ Added incremental hashing to unordered containers via
incremental<> option.
+ Minor bug fixes.
* Math.Special Functions: Improved accuracy and testing of the
inverse hypergeometric functions.
* Type Traits: Added better support for the Codegear compiler.
* Unordered:
+ Rename overload of emplace with hint, to emplace_hint as
specified in n2691.
+ Provide forwarding headers at
<boost/unordered/unordered_map_fwd.hpp> and
<boost/unordered/unordered_set_fwd.hpp>.
+ Move all of the implementation inside the boost/unordered
directory.
Compilers Tested
Boost's primary test compilers are:
* GCC 4.01 on Mac OS X 10.4.10 with both Intel and Power PC
* GCC 4.2.4 on Ubuntu Linux 8.10
* GCC 4.3.2 on Debian Sid
* GCC 4.2.1 on HP-UX Integrity
* HP C/aC++ B3910B A.06.17 on HP-UX 64-bit
* Visual C++ 9.0 SP1, 8.0, and 7.1 SP1, all on Windows XP
Boost's additional test compilers include:
* GCC 4.1.2 on NetBSD
* HP aCC on OS: HP-UX B.11.31 U ia64 and HP-UX B.11.31 9000/800 RISC
* IBM XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition for AIX, V10.1.0.0, on AIX Version
5.3.0.40
* Intel 9.1, 10.0, and 10.1, on Mac OS X 10.4.10
* Compaq C++ V7.1-006 for Compaq Tru64 Unix on an OSF1 V5.1 platform.
* Sun C++ 5.7, 5.8, 5.9 and GCC 3.4.6 on Sun Solaris 5.10.
* On Linux:
+ GCC 3.4.3, 4.0.1, 4.2.1, 4.2.4, 4.3.2.
+ GCC 4.3.2 with C++0x extensions.
+ GCC 4.1.1, 4.2.1 on 64 bit linux.
+ Intel C++ 8.1, 9.0, 9.1 and 10.0
+ QLogic PathScale(TM) Compiler Suite: Version 3.1
+ Sun Compiler 5.9, 5.10 with stdcxx
* On Windows:
+ Several testers using Visual C++ 7.1, 8.0, 9.0 and 10.0
+ Visual C++ 7.1 with Apache C++ Standard Library 4.2.x branch.
+ Visual C++ 8.0 with STLport 5.1
+ Visual C++ 8.0 with STLport 5.1 cross-compiling for Windows
Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC SDK (ARMV4I).
+ Intel 10.1, with Visual C++ 9 backend.
+ Borland 5.9.3 and 6.10.0
+ 64 bit Intel 10.1, with Visual C++ 9 backend.
+ 64 bit Visual C++ 9.0.
+ 64-bit Visual C++ 9.0 with Apache C++ Standard Library 4.2.x
branch.
+ Comeau C++ 4.3.10.1 beta 2, with Visual C++ 9 backend.
Acknowledgements
Beman Dawes, Eric Niebler, Rene Rivera, and Daniel James managed this
release.
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