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Jody Hagins | 3 Aug 00:46
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ScopeExit Review Announcement


Alexander Nasonov's ScopeExit submission will be formally reviewed
August 13 - August 22.

The current submission has been uploaded to
http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=scope_exit-0.04.tar.gz&directory=&

It's also available at http://tinyurl.com/2z6qg2

Online documentation is here
http://194.6.223.221/~nasonov/scope_exit-0.04/libs/scope_exit/doc/html/index.html

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Jody Hagins | 13 Aug 18:06
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ScopeExit Review Begins Today


The review period for Scope Exit Time Series, submitted by Alexander
Nasonov, runs from Monday, August 13 until Wednesday, August 22.

>From the documentation:

Nowadays, every C++ developer is familiar with RAII  technique. It binds
resource acquisition and release to initialization and destruction of a
variable that holds the resource. But there are times when writing a
special class for such variable is not worth the effort.

This is when ScopeExit macro comes into play. You put resource
acquisition directly in your code and next to it you write a code that
releases the resource.

Note that ScopeExit uses PP macros and relies on Boost.Typeof.

The latest version can is here:
http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=scope_exit-0.04.tar.gz&directory=&

It's available also at http://tinyurl.com/2z6qg2

Online documentation is here:
http://194.6.223.221/~nasonov/scope_exit-0.04/libs/scope_exit/doc/html/index.html

>From the review guidelines here:
http://boost.org/more/formal_review_process.htm ...

Boost mailing list members are encouraged to submit Formal Review
comments:
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Jody Hagins | 16 Aug 17:11
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ScopeExit Review Reminder


We have received only a few reviews so far.  The review ends in less
than a week, so time is running short.

Thanks!

>From the original announcement...

The review period for Scope Exit Time Series, submitted by Alexander
Nasonov, runs from Monday, August 13 until Wednesday, August 22.

>From the documentation:

Nowadays, every C++ developer is familiar with RAII  technique. It binds
resource acquisition and release to initialization and destruction of a
variable that holds the resource. But there are times when writing a
special class for such variable is not worth the effort.

This is when ScopeExit macro comes into play. You put resource
acquisition directly in your code and next to it you write a code that
releases the resource.

Note that ScopeExit uses PP macros and relies on Boost.Typeof.

The latest version can is here:
http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=scope_exit-0.04.tar.gz&directory=&

It's available also at http://tinyurl.com/2z6qg2

Online documentation is here:
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Beman Dawes | 16 Aug 20:52
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[Announcement] Boost joins the Software Freedom Conservancy

Effective August 10th, 2007, Boost became a member project of the
Software Freedom Conservancy, http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org.

This means that Boost is now part of a legal entity under US law, and
tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the US tax regulations. Although
this doesn't have much short-term effect, it lets us move forward
with BoostCon 2008 planning with less administrative delay. Long-term, 
being part of a non-profit organization allows Boost to continue to grow 
and prosper, and to raise money if that becomes useful.

After considering the option of starting our own foundation (a huge 
amount of work), the Boost moderators decided that joining the Software 
Freedom Conservancy was a better option. The SFC provides the same legal 
abilities of a foundation at NO cost to the Boost project. It also 
minimizes the amount of legal and administrative hassles for project 
members -- allowing us to stay focused on technical matters rather than 
tax law. In addition, we are free to leave the SFC and create our own 
foundation at a later time if we decide that the SFC is not serving us 
well. Boost is not alone -- some other well known open source projects 
have also joined the SFC (eg: Samba, Wine).

For those interested in the details, see a copy of the legal agreement 
at svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk/more/BoostSponsorshipAgreement.pdf

I signed for Boost, since I was the founder and am the owner of the 
boost.org domain name. Dave Abrahams gets the credit for working out the 
details of the SFC agreement, with the help of the other moderators.

--Beman
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John Phillips | 17 Aug 19:19
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Time Series review results


  I am pleased to announce that the Time Series library, submitted by Eric
Neibler and developed by him along with Daniel Egloff, Matthias Troyer,
David Abrahams and Daniel Wallin using funding provided by Zurcher
Kantonalbank has been accepted into boost. As seen in the review, there are
some important issues that need to be addressed before the library is ready
for boost distribution, however I am confident that this is a very good
library. Although the donation of time and funding for Time Series by
Zurcher Kantonalbank is laudable and something we would like to encourage
more companies to do, the fact that it was donated is not important to the
review process.

  Something that is important is the well-established reputation of the
involved lead developer. Eric has a number of very high quality libraries
already in boost and has shown his willingness to support them thoroughly
and improve them continually. He has been very responsive to user feedback
and has an obvious desire to have only high quality work committed to boost
with his name on it. For this reason, I am giving him a little more leeway
than might be given to a developer without his reputation to address the
issues in this review and enter the revised version into boost without a
fast tracked second review.

  Many thanks to the participants in the review: Tom Brinkman, Hugo Duncan,
Andrey Tcherepanov, Matthias Schabel, Steven Watanabe, Stjepan Rajko, Matias
Capeletto, Matthias Schabel, Lewis Hyatt, Paul Bristow, Tobias Schwinger,
Matthias Troyer, Phil Endecott, Zach Laine, Dave Abrahams, Michael Marcin,
and Michael Fawcett for their time and attention. The discussions held in
this review provided a strong foundation for improving the library, and the
variety of domains of expertise represented by the participants shows how
broad the desire for a library of this sort is.
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Jody Hagins | 19 Aug 19:03
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Looking for ScopeExit Reviews

The review ends in three days (on Wednesday).  The current collection of
reviews is very small, thus I am asking for more reviews of this
library.

Thanks!

>From the original announcement...

The review period for Scope Exit Time Series, submitted by Alexander
Nasonov, runs from Monday, August 13 until Wednesday, August 22.

>From the documentation:

Nowadays, every C++ developer is familiar with RAII  technique. It binds
resource acquisition and release to initialization and destruction of a
variable that holds the resource. But there are times when writing a
special class for such variable is not worth the effort.

This is when ScopeExit macro comes into play. You put resource
acquisition directly in your code and next to it you write a code that
releases the resource.

Note that ScopeExit uses PP macros and relies on Boost.Typeof.

The latest version can is here:
http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=scope_exit-0.04.tar.gz&directory=&

It's available also at http://tinyurl.com/2z6qg2

Online documentation is here:
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Jody Hagins | 21 Aug 23:00
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ScopeExit Review ends tomorrow (Wednesday)


The ScopeExit review ends on Wednesday, August 22.  If you want to have
input on its acceptance into Boost, please provide a review by tomorrow.

BTW, we need more input ;-)

Thanks!

>From the original announcement...

The review period for Scope Exit Time Series, submitted by Alexander
Nasonov, runs from Monday, August 13 until Wednesday, August 22.

>From the documentation:

Nowadays, every C++ developer is familiar with RAII  technique. It binds
resource acquisition and release to initialization and destruction of a
variable that holds the resource. But there are times when writing a
special class for such variable is not worth the effort.

This is when ScopeExit macro comes into play. You put resource
acquisition directly in your code and next to it you write a code that
releases the resource.

Note that ScopeExit uses PP macros and relies on Boost.Typeof.

The latest version can is here:
http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=scope_exit-0.04.tar.gz&directory=&

It's available also at http://tinyurl.com/2z6qg2
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