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Mailing List Discussion Policy. What's acceptable and what isn't.
Library Requirements and Guidelines. Basic standards for those preparing a submission.
Test Policy and Protocols. How testing works at Boost.
Library Submission Process. How to submit a library to Boost.
Library Formal Review Process. Including how to submit a review comment.
Header Policy. Headers are where a library contacts its users, so programming practices are particularly important.
Implementation Variations. Sometimes one size fits all, sometimes it doesn't. This page deals with the trade-offs.
Library Reuse. Should Boost libraries use other boost libraries? What about the C++ Standard Library? It's another trade-off.
Compiler Status Describes what library works with which compiler.
Formal Review Schedule Future, current, and recently past Formal Reviews.
Internal Regression Test Suite Describes the tool for generating the compiler status tables
Header Dependencies Describes what other headers each boost header includes.
Proposal for a C++ Library Repository Web Site The original 1998 proposal that launched Boost.
Error and Exception Handling describes approaches to errors and exceptions by David Abrahams.
Counted Body Techniques by Kevlin Henney is must reading for those interested in reference counting, a widely used object management idiom. Originally published in Overload magazine.
Generic Programming Techniques by David Abrahams and Jeremy Siek describe some of the techniques used in Boost libraries.
Feature Model Diagrams in text and HTML describes how to represent feature model diagrams in text form.
Portability Hints: Borland C++ 5.5.1 describes Borland C++ portability issues, with suggested workarounds.
Portability Hints: Microsoft VC++ 6.0 SP4 describes Microsoft C++ portability issues, with suggested workarounds.
Coding Guidelines for Integral Constant Expressions describes how to work through the maze of compiler related bugs surrounding this tricky topic.
The C++ Standard (ISO/IEC 14882) is available online as a PDF file from the ANSI (American National Standards Institute) Electronic Standards Store. The price is $US 18.00. The document is certainly not a tutorial, but is interesting to those who care about the precise specification of the language and the standard library.
Revised 19 August, 2001