2 Jun 05:39
Review Wizard Status Report for June 2009
From: Ronald Garcia <garcia <at> osl.iu.edu>
Subject: Review Wizard Status Report for June 2009
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.boost.announce
Date: 2009-06-02 03:43:09 GMT
Subject: Review Wizard Status Report for June 2009
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.boost.announce
Date: 2009-06-02 03:43:09 GMT
============================================== Review Wizard Status Report for June 2009 ============================================== News ==== Futures: Williams variant Accepted; Gaskill variant Rejected Boost 1.38 Released New Libraries: Revised Libraries: Boost.Range Extension Accepted Polynomial Library Rejected Boost 1.39 Released Constrained Value Review - Review Result Pending Older Issues ============ The Time Series Library, accepted in August 2007, has not yet been submitted to SVN. Eric Niebler and John Phillips are working on making the changes suggested during the review. The Floating Point Utilities Library, has not yet been submitted to SVN. It is slated to be integrated with the Boost.Math library.(Continue reading)
We received a number of reviews of this library, but none were in
favor of acceptance in its current form, and most thought that there
was still a fair bit of work to do to get the library into shape.
However, most thought that the library could be accepted into Boost
given sufficient changes/enhancements.
Therefore the library is not accepted into Boost at this time, but I
would like to encourage the author to continue to work on the library
and resubmit at a future time.
In no particular order the main review comments are summarized below:
Principal comments:
* Documentation, especially the background is inadequate and needs a
good proofreading
a) From the examples are nothing that a competent programmer couldn't
figure out from the declarations. Some more interesting or useful
examples would be nice, particularly for things like the special forms.
It's not exactly clear what I would do with those functions.
b) There is no documentation or references to the various algorithms
used. Those, too, would be nice.
c) Doc.html appear to have been created 'the Hard Way'. Would be much
more useful and look nicer if produced with the Quickbook, Doxygen...
toolchain. And make it maintainable by other people.
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