[boost] program_options defect

2003-08-14 Thread Neal D. Becker
I just found that program_options (from yahoo files) has a serious defect. The value of an option cannot start with the character '-', or it will be interpreted as an option. Obviously, this makes it difficult to enter a negative number as the option value. pgp0.pgp Description:

RE: [boost] Re: How Do We Install the Boost FileSystem?

2003-08-14 Thread Drazen DOTLIC
You can use the parts independently There is no install required You have the complete code, you include the appropriate header! Yes, for the 'header-only' libraries, filesystem library is not one of them. Boost isn't like most 3rd party libraries in the sense of a dll (or similar) which

Re: [boost] Re: Boost 1.31 release?

2003-08-14 Thread Martin Wille
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 release criteria will be 100% accounting for all failures on those platform/compiler pairs. I assume that Linux/GCC will be one of those

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

2003-08-14 Thread Fernando Cacciola
Beman Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

[boost] Re: Re: Infinite number of parameters?

2003-08-14 Thread Philippe A. Bouchard
Douglas Gregor wrote: [...] You can always write a forwarding 'foo' that checks the argument types, but I understand the reason you'd like this feature. My only question is whether it is worth the additional machinery that it would take, e.g., would this help a large amount of code? Perhaps

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

2003-08-14 Thread Brock Peabody
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philippe A. Bouchard Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 7:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [boost] Re: Re: UI++ [was: GUI sublanguage; Re: Re: Re: Re: GUI/GDI template library] Brock Peabody wrote:

[boost] Re: ANN: C++ XML Objects

2003-08-14 Thread David Abrahams
Paul Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just uploaded a new project called cppxmlobj which is a system for persisting C++ objects to and from XML files. It uses Boost, Patterns, STL etc extensively (even the build system), and I thought that the list might be interested. An

[boost] Re: Insufficient significant digits using lexical_cast

2003-08-14 Thread Daryle Walker
[Paul claims that lexical_cast prints (floating-point) numbers with too few precision digits. Currently, limits::digits10 + 1 is used. Paul wants to change it to int significant_digits10 = int(ceil(1 + limits::digits * log10Two)); where limits is the numeric-limits traits class and log10Two

Re: [boost] interval input operator has problem with spaces

2003-08-14 Thread gmelquio
En réponse à Jason McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [gah, I originally sent this to the wrong address] I found a slight annoyance with operator (istream, intervalwhatever): It can't cope with whitespace before its sentinel characters '[' and ',', causing some input operations to fail

[boost] Re: switch-based runtime type selection (for variant)

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Simpson
Aleksey Gurtovoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... FWIW, I've used a similar technique in MPL to do recursion unrolling for the 'advance' algorithm: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/boost/boost/

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

2003-08-14 Thread David Abrahams
Fernando Cacciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to say that I think it's the wrong patch. The right patch would put the swap specialization into _STL::. It actually sufixes I assume you mean suffices. to put any 'std' extension in a nested namespace (say, stdx); then injecting

[boost] Re: Boost::filesystem : compile trouble on Sun Solaris

2003-08-14 Thread David Abrahams
Toon Knapen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Using the sunpro toolset I get a strange error when compiling the boost::filesystem library (and thus all regression testing fails). Below you can find the error diagnostics. It comes down to an ambiguous overload of boost::operator==... but the two

[boost] Re: Release of 1.30.2 imminent

2003-08-14 Thread Fernando Cacciola
David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fernando Cacciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, There are still problems with Optional, related to some compilers not finding std swap(). I wrote the original code following compressed_pair.hpp, which is via

Re: [boost] Boost.Build V2, Milestone 6 released

2003-08-14 Thread Victor A. Wagner, Jr.
I finally had some time to try this out ... the .zip flavor: and came away confused = Installation...step 2. Place the Boost.Jam binary, called bjam or bjam.exe, somewhere in your PATH. Verify that correct bjam is being executed by running bjam --version. You should get

[boost] Re: Re: Release of 1.30.2 imminent

2003-08-14 Thread Fernando Cacciola
Peter Dimov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fernando Cacciola wrote: David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Which compilers are failing and where are the regression report pages? Sorry for the delay, I was leaving the office

Re: [boost] Some FC++ comments

2003-08-14 Thread Brian McNamara
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:27:08PM -0400, Brian McNamara wrote: I've been working on a draft of the documentation for the boostified version of FC++, and it's finally reached a good enough state to be potentially useful to you-all. Check out

[boost] Re: ANN: C++ XML Objects

2003-08-14 Thread Paul Hamilton
Dave Abrahams writes: Well, it's interesting but pretty hard to evaluate. As a recent Boost review of a persistence system shows, there are many dimensions to this problem domain. It's hard to get a grip on which of those you've chosen to address without some docs and/or examples. The most I

[boost] Re: Boost 1.31 release?

2003-08-14 Thread David Abrahams
Aleksey Gurtovoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote: David Abrahams wrote: Misha and Aleksey -- I think we really need to distinguish those failures from real regressions in the chart somehow or we'll never be able to tell where we stand. Here -

[boost] Re: boost::filesystem file restrictions

2003-08-14 Thread Edward Diener
Beman Dawes wrote: At 06:03 AM 8/14/2003, Walter Landry wrote: It would be trivial to add an additional path constructor that takes a checking function or function object. But that would kill ease-of-use. It is one thing to require an additional constructor argument in the fairly limited use

[boost] Re: Release of 1.30.2 imminent

2003-08-14 Thread David Abrahams
Peter Dimov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fernando Cacciola wrote: David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Which compilers are failing and where are the regression report pages? Sorry for the delay, I was leaving the office when you posted this Most

Re: [boost] boost::filesystem file restrictions

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Dimov
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 in names. A whole family of checkers is

[boost] Re: lexical_cast

2003-08-14 Thread Ross Smith
Aleksandr Golovanov wrote: Hello, I'm pretty new here, but I've extensively used boost library for about a year. Yesterday, I ran into a small problem, lexical_cast accepts copy instead of (const)? reference to a source. I have a class which I would prefer to be noncopyable and castable with

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

2003-08-14 Thread David Abrahams
David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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 making

Re: [boost] [BGL] (newbie)Finding the root of tree

2003-08-14 Thread Jonathan de Halleux
Thanks, stupid me ! I guess it has been too hot around here these days. At 13:12 14/08/2003 -0400, you wrote: From: Jonathan de Halleux [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a tree built with the BGL. I want to find the root of the tree. Has anybody an idea on the algorithm I should be using ? thks

[boost] Re: Boost 1.31 release?

2003-08-14 Thread Aleksey Gurtovoy
David Abrahams wrote: Here - http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/resources/cs-win32_metacomm/developer_summary_page.html Yellow cells indicate failures on the newly added tests/compilers. The updated report tools are not in the CVS yet, we will check them in after the first round of

[boost] Re: Release of 1.30.2 imminent

2003-08-14 Thread David Abrahams
Fernando Cacciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't understand the problem with the original code (as of revision 1.19), and I don't understand why 1.30.0 fails. RC_1_30_0 is working for me with gcc-3.2 on Win32. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com

[boost] lexical_cast

2003-08-14 Thread Aleksandr Golovanov
Hello, I'm pretty new here, but I've extensively used boost library for about a year. Yesterday, I ran into a small problem, lexical_cast accepts copy instead of (const)? reference to a source. I have a class which I would prefer to be noncopyable and castable with laxical_cast at the same time.

[boost] Re: Any interest in iostream-like pipe?

2003-08-14 Thread graydon hoare
Alexander Nasonov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Philippe A. Bouchard wrote: There is another pipestream project you can take a look at: http://pstreams.sourceforge.net/ May be I missed something but this library is about reading from stdin and writing to stdout of other process. It's not

[boost] boost::filesystem file restrictions

2003-08-14 Thread Walter Landry
Greetings, I've started using boost::filesystem recently, and I'm mostly very happy. One thing bothers me, though. Why does it implement any restrictions, by default, on what kind of files it allows? From the documentation: The following are not valid name char's: x01-x1F, , , :, , /, \,

[boost] MetaComm Regression results for gcc/icc on linux

2003-08-14 Thread Thomas Wenisch
Hi, I am trying to find regression test results for gcc-3.3 on linux and Intel 7.1 on Linux. Are the meta-intel-7.1 results at http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering for windows or linux? Does anyone have regression results for gcc/intel on linux? By the way, these results are really useful,

[boost] Re: trouble with static linking and intel-linux

2003-08-14 Thread David Abrahams
Samuel Krempp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As said in the Re: Release of 1.30.2 imminent thread, recent regressions for intel-linux-7.1 on ios_state and format (eg http://boost.sourceforge.net/regression-logs/cs-Linux-links.html#format_test1-intel-7.1) report weird linking erros (due to

RE: [boost] Re: Release of 1.30.2 imminent

2003-08-14 Thread Hurd, Matthew
-Original Message- From: Fernando Cacciola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: although this library is new, google shows (to my satisfaction) that there are already a couple of users of Optional out there. Simple and effective. It is in a production system here. Many thanks,

RE: [boost] boost::filesystem file restrictions

2003-08-14 Thread Michael van der Westhuizen
-Original Message- From: Beman Dawes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 August 2003 04:56 To: Boost mailing list; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [boost] boost::filesystem file restrictions At 06:03 AM 8/14/2003, Walter Landry wrote: I've started using boost::filesystem recently, and

[boost] ANN: C++ XML Objects (docs)

2003-08-14 Thread Paul Hamilton
For those who were interested but wanted to see what it is all about first, I have updated the site so that it has some documentation on how to actually use the project from within your own code. http://cppxmlobj.sourceforge.net/use.html Paul. - Paul Hamilton pHamtec P/L -

Re: [boost] Re: Release of 1.30.2 imminent

2003-08-14 Thread Martin Wille
David Abrahams wrote: Martin Wille writes: David Abrahams wrote: NOTICE: If I don't hear of any new problems with the RC_1_30_0 branch I'm going to release 1.30.2 tomorrow (Wed) evening or Thursday morning. Not new: there are still some regressions for Linux: crc_test regresses for gcc3.1 and

Re: [boost] time_duration bug in Boost 1.30.0

2003-08-14 Thread Jeff Garland
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 20:17:03 -0700, Stephan T. Lavavej wrote time_duration behaves highly nonintuitively. A time_duration should be convertible to seconds by calculating td.hours() * 3600 + td.minutes() * 60 + td.seconds(), right? Wrong! Hmm, I agree that this is not nice... ...example

Re: [boost] [BGL] (newbie)Finding the root of tree

2003-08-14 Thread Joel Young
From: Jonathan de Halleux [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a tree built with the BGL. I want to find the root of the tree. Has anybody an idea on the algorithm I should be using ? thks Assuming your graph is bidirectional and has a single root, then you should just be able to pick any node, pick any

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

2003-08-14 Thread Russell Hind
Bohdan wrote: E. Gladyshev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message Do you mean link of incompatible library problems ? If so ... as mentioned this is problem of boost build system and it will be finally solved. Look at boost::regex, it doesn't have such problems for compilers supporting #pragma

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

2003-08-14 Thread Paul Mensonides
Paul A. Bristow wrote: Since I couldn't find how to make the editor work with .ipp files from the MS documentation, but it ws kindly provided by a diligent Booster, can you suggest where this info shold be stored? FYI, a while back I got a power toy called vstweak that allows you to tweak

Re: [boost] Mixing g++/aCC on HP-UX (was: Compiler support)

2003-08-14 Thread Pascal Bleser
... Well, if things were that simple, we would have used GCC 2.x/3.x on HP-UX as well. Unfortunately, we have to link against 3rd party C++ libraries (Tuxedo (CORBA), actually) that have been compiled with aCC (*gasp* even with the old roguewave STL - they don't even have the std namespace).

Re: [boost] Iterator adaptor question

2003-08-14 Thread Neal D. Becker
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 02:38 pm, Thomas Witt wrote: gpgkeys: WARNING: this is an *experimental* HKP interface! gpgkeys: key D1DB3F812DD7B01A not found on keyserver Rozental, Gennadiy wrote: | What is the problem adapting pair of iterators to scalar vectors to produce | an iterator

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

2003-08-14 Thread Russell Hind
This is just what I would like to see in boost. I have created a duplicate set of headers for boost (same names, same structure but in boost_wrappers which do this and include the original header between the push and pop). We had a discussion about this a while back and I am all for it, but

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

2003-08-14 Thread Brock Peabody
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Torjo Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 11:58 AM To: Boost mailing list Subject: Re: [boost] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: GUI/GDI template library [...] I did fix the include file problem.

[boost] Re: boost::array

2003-08-14 Thread Alisdair Meredith
Robert Ramey wrote: const int array[] = {1, 2, 3, 4}; boost::container_facadeint cfa(array, sizeof(array)/sizeof(int)); I guess my problem is I still don't understand what is wrong with const boost::array int, 4 = { 1, 2, 3, 4 }; in this case. If you are referring to having to dictate the

[boost] Re: Boost 1.30.1 released

2003-08-14 Thread Daniel Frey
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 think it requires knowledge which I

RE: [boost] Mutable typedefs - changing the type associated withan identifier

2003-08-14 Thread Marc-Antoine Desroches
2) Is there a way to enhance the mutable typedef trick to avoid the large number of template instantiations? I have worked on a solution that would require less template instantiations but would still rely on the __LINE__ trick to avoid violations to the ODR. The example provided (as an

[boost] bind/lambda - unsupported use case?

2003-08-14 Thread Aleksey Gurtovoy
Consider the following snippet: void show_warning( message_dialog const, user_message ); void post_command( boost::functionvoid() ); int main() { boost::functionvoid( user_message ) f( bind( post_command , ( bind( show_warning,

Re: [boost] Re: automating registering of events (was: Re: GUI/GDItemplatelibrary)

2003-08-14 Thread John Torjo
AFAIK, some gui toolkits use not event, but callback system. IMHO it is more evective. Definitely it should be discussed carefully. Aren't we talking about the same thing? ;) In response to an event, you call an event callback. That's what my example does - it's obfuscated indeed, but

Re: [boost] Re: File missing from Boost 1.30.1 release?

2003-08-14 Thread Joerg Walter
- Original Message - From: David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 10:06 PM Subject: [boost] Re: File missing from Boost 1.30.1 release? David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Zak Kipling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've just tried

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

2003-08-14 Thread Brock Peabody
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of E. Gladyshev Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 12:22 AM To: Boost mailing list Subject: Re: [boost] Re: UI++ [was: GUI sublanguage;Re: Re: Re: Re: GUI/GDI template library] --- Philippe A. Bouchard

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

2003-08-14 Thread David B. Held
Beman Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] At 06:42 PM 8/10/2003, brock wrote: [...] Should I get this permission formalized? Yes, to protect both yourself and Boost. [...] Can we say: SCO vs. IBM? ; Dave ___

[boost] Re: plans for a bugfix release ?

2003-08-14 Thread David Abrahams
Aleksey Gurtovoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Abrahams wrote: Thanks for all the testing; the release looks pretty darned great! Just to make sure it's understood - although expected, all the green failures are still failures. Not that we can do much about them, of course. From a user

Re: [boost] [regex] Escaping a search string?

2003-08-14 Thread John Maddock
Given that I have a string 's' from somewhere, I'd like to create a regular expression where some part must match that string. The problem is, the 's' could contain characters that have a special meaning in regular expressions. Is there some support function that can provide an escaped version of

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:

[boost] filesystem feature request

2003-08-14 Thread David Abrahams
I need the ability to do interprocess synchronization through file locking, c.f. Java.File.createNewFile and Java.File.deleteOnExit: --- createNewFile public boolean createNewFile() throws IOException Atomically creates a new, empty file named by this abstract

Re: [boost] config, workaround of bug in variant's compiler bugworkaround on gcc

2003-08-14 Thread John Maddock
I think problem is with BOOST_EXPLICIT_TEMPLATE_TYPE(void) Simply removing that workaround macro from forced_return works for me as a dirty workaround. The question is, why BOOST_NO_EXPLICIT_FUNCTION_TEMPLATE_ARGUMENTS on gcc 3.2.x? config/compiler/gcc.hpp comments about some unspecified

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

2003-08-14 Thread Craig Perras
If you haven't seen Fresco (successor to InterViews) before, I think it has a lot of interesting ideas. http://www.fresco.org/ I've heard a couple competing ideas; either wraping native widgets or writing the widgets from scratch (both is a possibility too, of course). Either way I think it

Re: [boost] Patch to emacs cc-mode for template syntax andindentation

2003-08-14 Thread Neal D. Becker
On Monday 04 August 2003 10:43 pm, David Abrahams wrote: If anyone's interested, the enclosed patch against the current CC-mode Did you send this to cc-mode maintainer? Also, [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: signature

RE: [boost] Iterator adaptor question

2003-08-14 Thread Rozental, Gennadiy
|| What is the problem adapting pair of iterators to scalar vectors to |produce || an iterator with complex value type? | |The problem is you can hardly adapt a pair. So using iterator_adaptor |(the new class template) does not provide any benefit. | | | Why is that? The whole

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

2003-08-14 Thread Brock Peabody
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David B. Held Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 1:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [boost] Re: UI++ [was: GUI sublanguage; Re: GUI/GDI template library] Philippe A. Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

[boost] Re: GUI sublanguage ?

2003-08-14 Thread Philippe A. Bouchard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] After having followed this thread I wander if we are trying to reinvent the wheel. By googling a bit one can find plenty of Gui Toolkits and here I saw little of them. Not a word on Qt, for example. I never used it for an important project but they give a

Re: [boost] Any interest in iostream-like pipe?

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Evans
Alexander Nasonov wrote: [snip] The library doesn't use OS pipes. Pipe support is implemented by hand with a help of Boost.Threads. Synchronization occurs only in underflow, overflow, sync, open and close functions which means fast I/O. The library also has two capacity models: limited and

[boost] what happened to allocators in boost?

2003-08-14 Thread E. Gladyshev
I am wondering what happened to the allocator idiom in boost. Was it left out intentially? I can control all memory allocation details in STL (orthogonally to data types) but not in boost. It seems like a step backward comparing to STL. How can I use allocators with shared_ptr? Is there any way

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

[boost] Re: GUI sublanguage ?

2003-08-14 Thread Bohdan
Philippe A. Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bohdan wrote: [...] There are a lot of good reasons why we would not always want to have total control. Not always means sometimes not ? According to this logic your gui language is layer built on top of

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

2003-08-14 Thread Brock Peabody
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of E. Gladyshev Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 5:21 PM To: Boost mailing list Subject: Re: [boost] Re: GUI/GDI template library --- Bohdan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Finally your lib may

[boost] Re: Re: automating registering of events (was: Re: GUI/GDItemplatelibrary)

2003-08-14 Thread Bohdan
John Torjo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AFAIK, some gui toolkits use not event, but callback system. IMHO it is more evective. Definitely it should be discussed carefully. Aren't we talking about the same thing? ;) Not exactly. - Callbacks

[boost] Re: lexical_cast segfault

2003-08-14 Thread David Abrahams
Victor A. Wagner, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Test case (note that WinXP doesn't complain when programs segfault, hence the Begin/End business): See http://www.boost.org/more/error_handling.html for a way to work around that. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com

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.

[boost] Re: Infinite number of parameters?

2003-08-14 Thread Philippe A. Bouchard
Brock Peabody wrote: That's a cool idea. It's a lot prettier than using the preprocessor. Thanks, Brock. Does anyone know whether or not a language solution is being considered for this or variable class template arguments? It would be valueable for expressions only, not declarator lists.

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

2003-08-14 Thread Russell Hind
Beman Dawes wrote: I'd like to be sure that some Booster signs up for this beta and starts running the Boost regression tests against it. And then follows up with bug reports to Borland as needed. Any bugs fixed in the compiler before it ships are bugs Boosters don't have to cope with later.

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

2003-08-14 Thread Philippe A. Bouchard
E. Gladyshev wrote: [...] assign responsibilites. Then it is up to each developer to come up with a reasonable personal timeline (based on his/her personal schedule) for a part that she/he is going to be working on. What do you think? Ok, but the main decisions should be classified

Re: [boost] Re: Boost 1.31 release?

2003-08-14 Thread gmelquio
En réponse à David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Martin Wille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Abrahams wrote: In that case, can I release 1.30.2? I don't like having the 1.30.1 debacle hanging over my head. There are new regressions on Linux (RC_1_30_0 branch):

Re: [boost] Fun PP lib example

2003-08-14 Thread Aleksey Gurtovoy
Peter Dimov wrote: Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote: There is another variation of the idiom, sometimes called hidden state, which doesn't have the shortcoming in the first place: class foo { public: foo(); foo(int); int f() const; void

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

2003-08-14 Thread E. Gladyshev
--- Philippe A. Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are some of my postings on the name and project issues. Brock and I liked the Notus (god of the south wind) name. BTW Brock said that he is in! I'll be working on setting up the Notus (code name) project on sf

[boost] [BGL] bug in incremental_components examples / documentation

2003-08-14 Thread Janusz Piwowarski
Hi all I've found bug in incremental_components examples and documentation. Type _Rank_ is expected to be size_type, but container _rank_ is created from vertex_descriptor. Examples work because adjacency_list VertexList container type is vector. // ... typedef adjacency_list vecS, vecS,

RE: [boost] GUI/GDI template library

2003-08-14 Thread E. Gladyshev
--- Brock Peabody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For an exaggerated example, imagine that we design and implement layer one knowing nothing about any GUI APIs besides Win32. We'll probably have to make a lot of revisions if we then want to make that scheme fit over a *nix GUI API. I agree.

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

2003-08-14 Thread Alisdair Meredith
David Abrahams wrote: I'm trying to say that I think it's the wrong patch. The right patch would put the swap specialization into _STL::. I'm weighing up the 'correct' solution with the 'practical' solution. Correct would be, as you say, fix all the code everywhere else specializing

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

2003-08-14 Thread Brock Peabody
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bronek Kozicki Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 2:06 AM To: Boost mailing list Subject: Re: Re: Re: [boost] GUI/GDI template library E. Gladyshev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know much about

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

2003-08-14 Thread Russell Hind
Beman Dawes wrote: At 12:53 PM 8/6/2003, Russell Hind wrote: Perhaps coordinate with John Maddock? He is really our config header expert. So John, would you be interested in trying to get this sorted out for the next release? As I have said, I currenly only use BCB, and so can't offer much

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

[boost] Re: Boost 1.31 release?

2003-08-14 Thread Matthias Troyer
On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 12:21 PM, David Abrahams wrote: Matthias Troyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear Boosters, Since some of the applications and libraries we plan on releasing soon rely on Boost features and bugfixes that are in the CVS but not in Boost 1.30.[012] I wonder what the

[boost] Re: [MPL] Metafunction classes

2003-08-14 Thread David B. Held
Aleksey Gurtovoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] typedef typename apply typename lambdaPolicy::type , T ::type p; things should work independently of whenever 'Policy' is in form of 'my_policy_' or 'my_policy' - given that the

RE: [boost] GUI/GDI template library

2003-08-14 Thread E. Gladyshev
--- Brock Peabody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think now we need to decide which *nix GUI API to use and get started on a proof of concept. I am currently working with win32 only. I can take care of this one. I think it'll be nice to have support for X as well. Maybe we should decide which

RE: [boost] GUI sublanguage ?

2003-08-14 Thread Marshall Clow
At 3:28 PM -0500 8/6/03, Brock Peabody wrote: Because for a pretty large number of applications you can really simplify your code a lot by relying on the GUI system to 'do the right thing': using boost::gui; void my_action() {...} void progress_action(int tick) {...} gui::show( sample

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;

[boost] Re: Boost 1.31 release?

2003-08-14 Thread David Abrahams
Aleksey Gurtovoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Abrahams wrote: Aleksey Gurtovoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I worry a little about requiring library authors not to regress on compiler combinations they don't test with. Well, the regressions are run daily, so testing happens. Another

[boost] Iterator adaptor question

2003-08-14 Thread Neal D. Becker
Some time back I mentioned I was interested in iterator adaptors to convert between vectors of complex and scalar. I have looked at using the iterator adaptor framework in boost. It appears that it is easy enough to adapt from a complex sequence to pick off either the real or imaginary part,

RE: [boost] [date_time] improvements

2003-08-14 Thread Jeff Garland
John - Sorry to be slow on this reply... John Torjo wrote: [1] unary operator-(time_iterator). Example: -hours(24) instead of hours(-24). (seems more straightforward) I see your point, but then don't you have to add all the other operators for consistency? Not sure that makes

RE: [boost] GUI/GDI template library

2003-08-14 Thread Brock Peabody
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of E. Gladyshev Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 10:33 PM To: Boost mailing list Subject: Re: [boost] GUI/GDI template library [...] Don't know where to start... Greek and Roman mythology? 'Aquilo'

[boost] Re: UI++

2003-08-14 Thread Paul Hamilton
I am currently porting something called XMLUI to use boost/bjam etc. The general background of XMLUI is based on the work we did at mBED for a flash-like animation system (although it predated flash). This project is the culmination of a number of years of design of widget-less UI systems that

Re: [boost] Re: Release of 1.30.2 imminent

2003-08-14 Thread Thomas Witt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Maddock wrote: |Just out of curiosity. What the heck is librt? | | | It contains the POSIX realtime feature set (used by boost.threads, and hence | tested by boost.config for timeouts and thread priorities and the like). Ahhh.. Thanks! Thomas -

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] GUI/GDI template library

2003-08-14 Thread E. Gladyshev
--- Brock Peabody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't know where to start... Greek and Roman mythology? 'Aquilo' the north wind, the ruler of the winds. 'Notus' the south wind 'Flora' goddess of flowers and spring. 'Arcadia' a district of the Peloponnesus, the home of pastoral

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

2003-08-14 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Walter) writes: [...] | This whole thing (-fabi-version) is messy. It is what one gets by | taking users for beta testers ;-) | | That's not the whole story. When testing with GCC 3.3.1 prerelease I noticed | that setting -fabi-version isn't necessary anymore. So I

Re: [boost] Re: RC_1_30_2 tagged for release

2003-08-14 Thread Martin Wille
Martin Wille wrote: David Abrahams wrote: Martin Wille writes: The fix made to the gcc toolset regarding the use of the GXX variable should be backported to 1_30_2. Please be more specific, i.e. post a patchset. If I had a patchset then I would have applied it :) (I sent a bug report some

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

2003-08-14 Thread John Maddock
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 should make the changes now or wait until

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