Re: [boost] optional/type_with_alignment.hpp vs. metrowerks 8.3 PPCCFM

2003-09-02 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Mat Marcus wrote: > --On Tuesday, September 02, 2003 2:00 PM -0400 Douglas Gregor > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I suspect they are both '4', but that leaves me even more confused > > as to why the alignment of std::pair would be 8 > > (and how to get a POD type with alignme

[boost] [PATCH] libs/integer/cstdint_test.cpp should define__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROSearlier

2003-08-15 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
The test case libs/integer/cstdint_test.cpp includes and _before_ it defines __STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS. This means that on a platform that (a) supports defining the C99 macros in when __STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS is defined and (b) uses somewhere in , the test fails, because __STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS has b

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

2003-08-14 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, John Maddock wrote: > > Does regex address the issue of alignment and calling convention etc and > > other options (in BCB, treat enums as ints is a good one to screw up > > libraries) by wrapping the headers in push/pop option statements? > > Yes: [solution] > We should standa

Re: [boost] Re: Boost 1.31 release?

2003-08-14 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, David Abrahams wrote: > According to your chart, the following libraries are all regressing: > function > > Are these real regressions or just newly-tested compilers? Can the > library authors/maintainers address these problems? Where is our > maintenance wizard? All of th

Re: [boost] Re: Boost 1.31 release?

2003-08-14 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Martin Wille wrote: > - function::sum_avg_portable Should be fixed now. Doug ___ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost

Re: [boost] Re: GUI/GDI template library

2003-08-01 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, E. Gladyshev wrote: > > Pimpl definitely has its place. > > I agree, but boost::threads and boost::gui would be > much better of with ImplTraits, in my opinion. Because one might use multiple threading models in a single program? Since we already have a boost::threads design to

Re: [boost] Preparing 1.30.1 Release

2003-08-01 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, David Abrahams wrote: > I have put a diff of the changes between Version_1_30_0 and RC_1_30_0 > at http://www.boost-consulting.com/diffs-1-30-1.txt. These will be > the changes that go into the Boost 1.30.1 release. Will the > authors/maintainers of the following libraries ple

Re: [boost] Signals and multi_array? [was: Problem compiling boost.filesystem]

2003-07-14 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Beman Dawes wrote: > At 09:50 PM 7/13/2003, David Abrahams wrote: > > >Matthias Troyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> ... I hope that multi_array will also be fixed soon > > >Somebody has to make that fix, whatever it is. multi_array used to > >use its own private

Re: [boost] Re: New Iterator Adaptors

2003-06-11 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, David Abrahams wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hartmut Kaiser) writes: > > What about re-introducing the boost/iterator_adaptors.hpp file: > > > > #define BOOST_ITERATOR_ADAPTOR_VERSION 0x2000 > > #include > > > > This would allow for some version tracking and a smooth migration p

Re: [boost] Re: Projection property map

2003-05-11 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Sat, 10 May 2003, David Abrahams wrote: > Douglas Gregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Here's the projection_property_map class template. Anyone need it in > > boost/property_map.hpp? > > Boost property_map_adaptors library anyone? Sure. Have a few more to donate? Doug _

Re: [boost] [BoostBook] Guinea pig request

2003-03-27 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, William E. Kempf wrote: > I'm using 0.20.4 (on Mandrake 9.1) and receive lots of errors. A few > examples: > > [ERROR] Error in column-width property value '33%': > org.apache.fop.fo.expr.PropertyException: No conversion defined > > [ERROR] property - "last-line-end-indent" is

Re: [boost] [BoostBook] Guinea pig request

2003-03-27 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Douglas Paul Gregor wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Joel de Guzman wrote: > > Spirit desperately needs a reference manual. Yes, I'm very interested. > > I am also very interested to build Spirit based tools to make the task > > easier. I'm just

Re: [boost] [BoostBook] Guinea pig request

2003-03-27 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Martin Wille wrote: > Douglas Paul Gregor wrote: > > > I would like a volunteer ... > > I gave it a try: Thanks! > - pdf: lots of messages regarding missing "hyphenation pattern for >language en". A pdf file is created, however. T

Re: [boost] [BoostBook] Guinea pig request

2003-03-27 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, William E. Kempf wrote: > Documentation nits: > > * "and including that Jamfile in the list of Jamfiles including for > testing" under Testsuites... should be "included for testing". That's one seriously ugly sentence I wrote. Fixed now. Thanks. > * Navigation links have brok

Re: [boost] [BoostBook] Guinea pig request (novice alert)

2003-03-27 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Neal D. Becker wrote: > OK, I can get boostbook running on RH8.0 using: > > using boostbook : /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets/ > : /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.1.2-1.0-14/ > ; > > My interest was to try to learn about boostbook for

Re: [boost] Re: [BoostBook] Guinea pig request

2003-03-27 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Daniel James wrote: > Hi, > > I had a go. I'm using windows ME, and had to do a lot of stuff manually, > since I'm not using Cygwin. I had to edit catalog.xml, removing some extra > punctuation and changing some of the slashes from windows style to uri style > (ie. c:\src\boos

Re: [boost] [BoostBook] Guinea pig request (novice alert)

2003-03-27 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Neal D. Becker wrote: > Now try with boostbook: > db2pdf boostbook.xml > jw: Please specify at least one catalog > > Any clue what's wrong? BoostBook isn't DocBook (although it can be transformed into DocBook), so DocBook tools won't work directly on it. We have our own build

Re: [boost] [BoostBook] Guinea pig request

2003-03-27 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Joel de Guzman wrote: > Spirit desperately needs a reference manual. Yes, I'm very interested. > I am also very interested to build Spirit based tools to make the task > easier. I'm just afraid of the time that I need to commit. Perhaps I can > proceed step-wise? Suggestions?

[boost] [BoostBook] Guinea pig request

2003-03-26 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
BoostBook is nearing the point where building documentation is as easy as building libraries. The Boost.Build v2 modules for BoostBook (and associated tools) are quite functional and work well for me, but I want to verify the they will work well for someone else. I would like a volunteer to try ou

Re: [boost] Re: Determining interest in combining_iterator

2003-03-26 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On 26 Mar 2003, Anthony Williams wrote: > It strikes me that if you dereference n iterators, you have n values, and the > most natural way to store them is a tuple. Doing anything other than returning > this tuple seems to me just complicating the usage. I would agree if tuples and argument passin

Re: [boost] Re: boost::optional feature request.

2003-03-24 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Edward Diener wrote: > Do you really want the key to an associative container to be an optional > value ? I would be hard-pressed to find a use for that. FWIW, the Signals library actually does this internally (although with boost::any objects instead of boost::optional objec

Re: [boost] info on boostbook

2003-03-24 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Neal D. Becker wrote: > I'd like to learn about boostbook. Where can I find some info? Are there > dtd's I can get? All of the BoostBook sources (DTD, XSL stylesheets, docs, etc.) are in Boost CVS under tools/boostbook. There's an HTML version of the BoostBook documentation

Re: [boost] Determining interest in combining_iterator

2003-03-24 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
> The combining iterator is another iterator adaptor. It > holds a boost::tuple of iterators. Moving the > combining iterator in any way causes all member > iterators of the tuple to move in parallel. Upon > dereferencing the combining iterator, the dereferenced > values of the member iterators are

Re: [boost] boost::any feature request

2003-03-24 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Vladimir Prus wrote: > Say, I have > >std::map values; > > Will I be able to write: > >any a; >values[10] = a; > > ? > IOW, I don't think your proposal provides any means to convert between 'any' > with different allocators. And I'm not sure you can easily achieve t

[boost] [BGL] write_graphviz normal graphs vs. subgraphs w.r.t.attributes

2003-03-20 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
The handling of attributes in write_graphviz differs greatly depending on whether the graph given to write_graphviz is a subgraph or not. With normal graphs, one can (optionally) specify vertex, edge, and graph writers that write the entire attribute string in graphviz format. If a particular write

RE: [boost] Re: Re: Regex and STLPMT.LIB

2003-03-17 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Malcolm Smith wrote: > I've been to http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/ but 1.30.0 is not listed > (or I'm blind). Where is the beta ? Carefully hidden here :) http://boost.sourceforge.net/regression-logs/boost_1_30_0_b1.zip Doug ___

Re: [boost] possible addition to operators library

2003-02-25 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, David Abrahams wrote: > namespace boost > { >struct safe_bool >{ >int value; >typedef int safe_bool::*type; >}; > } > > struct myclass > { >operator boost::safe_bool::type() const >{ > return expression ? &boost::safe_bool::value : 0;

Re: [boost] Any, Function, and Signals documentation

2003-02-18 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, William E. Kempf wrote: > > If there are no complains, I would _love_ to move BoostBook out of the > > sandbox and into its (presumably) permanent place in Boost CVS. > > Well, I'm in favor of that, since we're moving at least some of the > documentation to Boost.Book with this

Re: [boost] Boost.dynamic_any vs Boost.Function

2003-02-18 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Alexander Nasonov wrote: > With a help of boost::dynamic_any::call operation (not yet implemented) it's > possible to use boost::dynamic_any::any instead of Boost.Function. Though > this new solution is less specialized and probably slower then > Boost.Function it has one ad

Re: [boost] Any, Function, and Signals documentation

2003-02-18 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Beman Dawes wrote: > At 06:24 PM 2/17/2003, Douglas Gregor wrote: > >Well, you'll have the doc source on your machine, and can generate > whatever > >format you want. > > Where is this documented? How long does it take? It there a way to only > regenerate the files that chang

Re: [boost] Any, Function, and Signals documentation

2003-02-18 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, William E. Kempf wrote: > Douglas Gregor said: > > You probably caught me messing with the scripts (and therefore > > regenerating the documentation in-place). > > Long term, this wouldn't be satisfactory. The scripts should be generated > in a seperate location to minimize t

Re: [boost] document translation

2003-01-26 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, k.takahashi wrote: > Now, we intend to translate boost library document into Japanese, and > publish them on the web. > > Then, we want to ask you some points. > > First, are there any problems about license or copylight? There should not be any problems with license or copyri

Re: [boost] Re: Integrating BoostBook documentation with HTMLdocumentation

2003-01-24 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, James Curran wrote: > "Douglas Gregor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > -- Footer should have a "revised" date. I like the horizon rule, > too. > > > > A "generated" date would be easy; a "revised" date isn't so easy

Re: [boost] Re: MPL usage for code generation

2003-01-23 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, David Abrahams wrote: > Douglas Paul Gregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, David Abrahams wrote: > >> No, I mean the complexity-of-expression issue. > > > > Hmmm, I don't see how that issue applies. >

Re: [boost] Re: MPL usage for code generation

2003-01-23 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, David Abrahams wrote: > Douglas Paul Gregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, David Abrahams wrote: > >> AFAICT it > >> doesn't solve the problem that Andrei was pointing at. > > > > You mean the fr

Re: [boost] Re: [Boost-docs] Integrating BoostBook documentationwith HTMLdocumentation

2003-01-23 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, David Abrahams wrote: > I've been watching this thread go by; kept a bunch of messages in my > inbox because I didn't know what to make of them, and now I realize I > still don't. It looks like there is going to be a big learning curve > for me; I have practically no XML/XSLT

Re: [boost] Re: MPL usage for code generation

2003-01-23 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, David Abrahams wrote: > Douglas Paul Gregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Why don't we have > > > > mpl::list list_of_types; > > for_each(list_of_types.begin(), list_of_types.end(), f); > > > > ? > > >

Re: [boost] Re: MPL usage for code generation

2003-01-23 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, David Abrahams wrote: > I've been talking with Aleksey recently about how to improve the > syntactic situation without losing the separation of concerns that we > get, but we didn't come up with anything convincingly better. I think > a long time ago the for_each parameter use

Re: [boost] Re: Proposal for any_cast to references

2003-01-22 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Unai Uribarri Rodríguez wrote: > Douglas Paul Gregor wrote: > > Any particular reason why any_cast(x) should return a copy and not a > > reference? > > Because any_cast(x) states more clearly your intention of retrieving > a reference. Oka

Re: [boost] Re: Proposal for any_cast to references

2003-01-22 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Unai Uribarri Rodríguez wrote: > I propose to implement any_cast(x) and any_cast(x) with the > semantics of dynamic_cast. That is, if x has type A, any_cast(x) > returns a reference to the content of x and any_cast(x) returns a > pointer to the content of x. Else,

Re: [boost] Re: Review results: Optional library

2003-01-22 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Fernando Cacciola wrote: > So, what else should I do? Is there something I need to setup in order to > add optional to the regression tests? You'll probably want to create a testing Jamfile libs/optional/test/Jamfile. The easy way to do that is to cut 'n' paste from, e.g., lib

Re: [boost] Proposal for any_cast to references

2003-01-22 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Jason House wrote: > Douglas Gregor wrote: > > template ValueType& any_cast(any & operand); > > template const ValueType& any_cast(const any & operand); > > > > If "operand" does not contain a value of type ValueType, any_cast throws > > bad_any_cast. Otherwise, it returns a re

Re: [boost] Boost.dynamic_any tutorial

2003-01-16 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Alexander Nasonov wrote: > http://cpp-experiment.sourceforge.net/boost/libs/dynamic_any/doc/tutorial.html > > It's very raw but I don't have time now to fishish it. Looks good so far! Somewhere in the final version there should probably be a comparison between dynamic_any and

Re: [boost] Re: Boost signals suggestions

2002-12-26 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Edward Diener wrote: > "Douglas Paul Gregor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Edward Diener wrote: > > > One should be able to order the call of slots whe

Re: [boost] Boost signals suggestions

2002-12-25 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Edward Diener wrote: > One should be able to order the call of slots when connecting them to a > signal by saying that a slot should currently come first or last in the > overall order without having to manually manufacturer low and high group > numbers. This is especially so b

Re: [boost] What is DocBook?

2002-12-25 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Ihsan Ali Al Darhi wrote: > Today I again read about the use of DocBook for Boost library documentation. > To tell you the truth, I didn't understand what this DocBook is. If it is a > program, can you tell me where I get a copy for Windows? DocBook is not a program. It's a ma

Re: [boost] bollean states

2002-12-03 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Ihsan Ali Al Darhi wrote: > I found it. Thanks. > > But where's the docs? > > Mohammed libs/utility/doc/tribool.html Doug ___ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost

Re: [boost] boost::array and VC7 (oil & water)

2002-11-11 Thread Douglas Paul Gregor
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Victor A. Wagner, Jr. wrote: > I deleted the token BOOST_DEDUCED_TYPENAME and "nothing obvious > happens" I still get the same error(s) in my compile. ... or try replacing BOOST_DEDUCED_TYPENAME with just "typename". My experience with MSVC 6 is that it handles the "typename