[boost] Re: Downloading options

2002-12-01 Thread Vesa Karvonen
Beman Dawes: Daryle Walker: > 1. The download option from SourceForge just uses our web space as > an archive depot. All other SourceForge projects I've seen use > SF's downloading facilities (file release). We could switch to it > to be more consistent with other SF projects, but we'll also get

Re: [boost] Re: Boost release compressed by bzip2

2002-12-01 Thread Alkis Evlogimenos
On Sunday 01 December 2002 08:05 pm, Rene Rivera wrote: > [2002-12-01] Gennadiy Rozental wrote: > >"Robin.Hu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > >> Bzip2 is widely spreaded with GNU software. It is available to all *nix > >> platforms those ar

[boost] Re: Re: Boost release compressed by bzip2

2002-12-01 Thread Gennadiy Rozental
> Because none of those; bz2, rar, or ace, will let you do this... > > tar zxvf boost-1.29.0.tar.gz I could not get your point here. Every archiver has it's own command for unpacking. So what? Gennadiy. ___ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lis

[boost] Re: BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL() dangers

2002-12-01 Thread Gennadiy Rozental
> Actually I was hoping you would choose option 3. :-) For me, option 2 > just doesn't feel right. And I think it's not in the spirit of the > standard, either. (Implicit conversion from char * to string doesn't > exist, a char * is just a pointer.) I would classify this as > "suprising behaviour"

Re: [boost] Re: Boost release compressed by bzip2

2002-12-01 Thread Rene Rivera
[2002-12-01] Gennadiy Rozental wrote: > >"Robin.Hu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... >> Bzip2 is widely spreaded with GNU software. It is available to all *nix >> platforms those are available to me, include linux, *bsd, solaris, etc... >> >> IMHO,

[boost] Re: Boost release compressed by bzip2

2002-12-01 Thread Gennadiy Rozental
"Robin.Hu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Bzip2 is widely spreaded with GNU software. It is available to all *nix > platforms those are available to me, include linux, *bsd, solaris, etc... > > IMHO, using tar.bz2 instead of tar.gz is a good ide

Re: [boost] Boost release compressed by bzip2

2002-12-01 Thread Robin.Hu
Bzip2 is widely spreaded with GNU software. It is available to all *nix platforms those are available to me, include linux, *bsd, solaris, etc... IMHO, using tar.bz2 instead of tar.gz is a good idea. On Sun, 01 Dec 2002 19:35:35 -0500 Beman Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 03:05 PM 11/29/20

Re: [boost] Possible patch to format for Borland BCB5

2002-12-01 Thread David Abrahams
A small correction -- David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's pretty simple: > > 0. A "dependent" name is one whose meaning depends on the type or >value of a template parameter. > > 1. templates are parsed in phase 1 and all non-dependent names are >bound at that point. Any un

[boost] Re: implicit_cast inventor

2002-12-01 Thread Carl Daniel
"Beman Dawes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I'm all for bending over backwards to protect Booster's intellectual > property rights, but I having a lot of trouble applying IP concepts to such > a posting. Am I off-base here? I think you're spot

Re: [boost] implicit_cast inventor

2002-12-01 Thread David Abrahams
Beman Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 11:26 AM 11/30/2002, David Abrahams wrote: > >"Peter Dimov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Google tells me that I was wrong, and the "correct" implementation was > >> originally suggested by C. Green in > >> > >> http://lists.boost.org/MailA

RE: [boost] Possible patch to format for Borland BCB5

2002-12-01 Thread Beman Dawes
At 04:36 PM 12/1/2002, Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote: >Beman Dawes wrote: >> Hum... I'll take your word for it, but to tell the truth I >> have trouble understanding what either ``this->member_name'' >> or `BaseClass::member_name'' adds. > >It makes 'member_name' identifier a dependent name (14.6.2, [tem

Re: [boost] Boost release compressed by bzip2

2002-12-01 Thread Beman Dawes
At 03:05 PM 11/29/2002, Pavel Vozenilek wrote: >Bandwith and time of those with dialup can be saved by compressing Boost >release by BZIP2 compressor (http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/). > >For example boost_1_29_0.tar.gz has size 5 272 kB, tared and compressed by >bzip2 size is 4 282 kB (down to

Re: [boost] implicit_cast inventor

2002-12-01 Thread Beman Dawes
At 11:26 AM 11/30/2002, David Abrahams wrote: >"Peter Dimov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Google tells me that I was wrong, and the "correct" implementation was >> originally suggested by C. Green in >> >> http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg00886.php > >Hmm. Can anyone track him down

Re: [boost] lexical_cast and Unicode

2002-12-01 Thread Terje Slettebø
>From: "Phil Nash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [Terje Slettebø] > > Speaking of different character types, perhaps there could also be > interest > > for converting between strings of different character types, as well? For > > example: > > > > std::string str=lexical_cast(L"A wide character string");

RE: [boost] Possible patch to format for Borland BCB5

2002-12-01 Thread Aleksey Gurtovoy
Beman Dawes wrote: > Hum... I'll take your word for it, but to tell the truth I > have trouble understanding what either ``this->member_name'' > or `BaseClass::member_name'' adds. It makes 'member_name' identifier a dependent name (14.6.2, [temp.dep]), thus deferring its resolution to the point

Re: [boost] lexical_cast and Unicode

2002-12-01 Thread Phil Nash
[Terje Slettebø] > Speaking of different character types, perhaps there could also be interest > for converting between strings of different character types, as well? For > example: > > std::string str=lexical_cast(L"A wide character string"); > std::wstring wstr=lexical_cast("A character string");

Re: [boost] Possible patch to format for Borland BCB5

2002-12-01 Thread David Abrahams
Beman Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 08:11 PM 11/28/2002, David Abrahams wrote: > > >> AFAIK, Metrowerks is correct, and the other compilers intend to detect > >these errors in the future. > >> > >> The fix is usually to add qualification. For example, > >foo::out_of_range_bit. > > >

Re: [boost] Possible patch to format for Borland BCB5

2002-12-01 Thread Beman Dawes
At 08:11 PM 11/28/2002, David Abrahams wrote: >> AFAIK, Metrowerks is correct, and the other compilers intend to detect >these errors in the future. >> >> The fix is usually to add qualification. For example, >foo::out_of_range_bit. > >The fix is usually to make sure that the appropriate declarati

Re: [boost] Re: relative/absolute paths in filesystem library

2002-12-01 Thread Beman Dawes
At 08:02 PM 11/29/2002, David Abrahams wrote: >Beman Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> >I don't know if it was controversial, but I did bring this up during >> >the review and I do think its very important. The basic definition >> >of an absolute path should be a path that overrides the bas

[boost] boost/throw_expression.hpp specs?

2002-12-01 Thread Beman Dawes
If BOOST_NO_EXCEPTIONS is defined then boost::throw_expression() is declared but not defined. The docs say "...the user is expected to supply an appropriate definition" but no other requirements are stated. Seems there is should be an additional requirement "A user-defined throw_expression fun

[boost] [test] handling fatal errors

2002-12-01 Thread Gennadiy Rozental
Hi, everybody I would like to bring your attention to some issues related to handling by Boost.Test errors causing program to terminate in regular case. It could be fatal error like SIGSEGV is caught or division by zero or assert statement. Unfortunately Boost.Test a bit inconsistent in it's ha

[boost] UBLAS: preserving matrix resize.

2002-12-01 Thread Stas Fomin
I have to make matrix resize with preserving of the content of the matrix. (add rows, columns...) I try to do this using matrix ranges: -- Mat A(2,2); A(0,0)=11; A(0,1)=12; A(1,0)=21; A(1,1)=22; Mat _A(4,4); _A.project(ublas::range(0,A

[boost] Re: Boost License Issues

2002-12-01 Thread Alexander Terekhov
"Iain K.Hanson" wrote: [...] > a patent (US) in the late 80's oe earlier 90's on Finite State > Machines, The general form of FSM. That's OK. Look at this: < ;-) > http://tinyurl.com/242u <--- stuff at uspto.gov http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US05443036__ ("United States Patent 5,443,036")

[boost] Lambda and Borland C++

2002-12-01 Thread John Maddock
I'm wondering if it's possible to get Lambda working with Borland's compiler? There are a couple of issues that are easy to fix, but then things get tricky: 1) Integral constant expressions need fully qualified names: RCS file: /cvsroot/boost/boost/boost/lambda/detail/lambda_traits.hpp,v retriev

RE: [boost] [MPL] vector of vectors

2002-12-01 Thread Aleksey Gurtovoy
David A. Greene wrote: > Is it possible to have an MPL vector of MPL vectors? Sure. MPL sequences are polymorphic regarding their elements; everything that is a type can be put into a sequence, and everything in MPL is a type :). > When I try this, the compiler (g++ 3.2) complains about an inco