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<h1 class="title">Review Wizard Status Report for November 2007</h1>
<div class="section" id="news">
<h1><a name="news">News</a></h1>
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<dt>November 7, 2007 - Exception Library Accepted</dt>
<dd>Announcement: <a class="reference" href="http://lists.boost.org/boost-users/2007/11/31912.php">http://lists.boost.org/boost-users/2007/11/31912.php</a></dd>
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<p>We need experienced review managers. Please take a look at the list
of libraries in need of managers and check out their descriptions. In
general review managers are active boost participants or library
contributors. If you can serve as review manager for any of them,
email Ron Garcia or John Phillips, &quot;garcia at cs dot indiana dot edu&quot;
and &quot;jphillip at capital dot edu&quot; respectively.</p>
<p>A link to this report will be posted to www.boost.org.
If you would like us to make any modifications or additions to this
report before we do that, please email Ron or John.</p>
<p>If you're library author and plan on submitting a library for review
in the next 3-6 months, send Ron or John a short description of your
library and we'll add it to the Libraries Under Construction below.
We know that there are many libraries that are near completion, but we
have hard time keeping track all of them. Please keep us informed
about your progress.</p>
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<div class="section" id="review-queue">
<h1><a name="review-queue">Review Queue</a></h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Finite State Machines</li>
<li>Floating Point Utilities</li>
<li>Switch</li>
<li>Property Map (fast-track)</li>
<li>Graph (fast-track)</li>
<li>Forward (fast-track)</li>
<li>Singleton (fast-track)</li>
<li>Factory (fast-track)</li>
<li>Lexer</li>
<li>Thread-Safe Signals</li>
<li>Logging</li>
<li>Flyweight</li>
<li>Unordered Containers</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="finite-state-machines">
<h2><a name="finite-state-machines">Finite State Machines</a></h2>
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<col class="field-name" />
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Andrey Semashev</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Martin Vuille</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://tinyurl.com/yjozfn">Boost Sandbox Vault</a></td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">The Boost.FSM library is an implementation of FSM (stands for
Finite State Machine) programming concept. The main goals of the
library are:</p>
<ul class="last simple">
<li>Simplicity. It should be very simple to create state machines using
this library.</li>
<li>Performance. The state machine infrastructure should not be
very time and memory-consuming in order to be applicable in
more use cases.</li>
<li>Extensibility. A developer may want to add more states to an
existing state machine. A developer should also be able to
specify additional transitions and events for the machine with
minimum modifications to the existing code.</li>
</ul>
</td>
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</div>
<div class="section" id="floating-point-utilities">
<h2><a name="floating-point-utilities">Floating Point Utilities</a></h2>
<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
<col class="field-name" />
<col class="field-body" />
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Johan Råde</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Need Volunteer</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?directory=Math%20-%20Numerics">Boost Sandbox Vault</a></td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">The Floating Point Utilities library contains the following:</p>
<ul class="last simple">
<li>Floating point number classification functions: fpclassify, isfinite,
isinf, isnan, isnormal (Follows TR1)</li>
<li>Sign bit functions: signbit, copysign, changesign (Follows TR1)</li>
<li>Facets that format and parse infinity and NaN according to the C99
standard (These can be used for portable handling of infinity and NaN
in text streams).</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<div class="section" id="switch">
<h2><a name="switch">Switch</a></h2>
<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
<col class="field-name" />
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<tbody valign="top">
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Steven Watanabe</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Need Volunteer</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&amp;filename=mcs_units_v0.7.1.zip&amp;directory=Units">Boost Sandbox Vault</a></td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">The built in C/C++ switch statement is very efficient. Unfortunately,
unlike a chained if/else construct there is no easy way to use it when
the number of cases depends on a template parameter. The Switch library
addresses this issue.</td>
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</div>
<div class="section" id="property-map-fast-track">
<h2><a name="property-map-fast-track">Property Map (fast-track)</a></h2>
<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
<col class="field-name" />
<col class="field-body" />
<tbody valign="top">
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Andrew Sutton</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Jeremy Siek</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/graph-v2">http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/graph-v2</a></td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">A number of additions and modifications to the Property Map Library,
including:</p>
<ul class="last simple">
<li>A constant-valued property map, useful for naturally unweighted
graphs.</li>
<li>A noop-writing property map, useful when you have to provide an
argument, but just don't care about the output.</li>
<li>See
<a class="reference" href="http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/browser/sandbox/graph-v2/libs/property_map/ChangeLog">ChangeLog</a>
for details.</li>
</ul>
</td>
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</tbody>
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</div>
<div class="section" id="graph-fast-track">
<h2><a name="graph-fast-track">Graph (fast-track)</a></h2>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Andrew Sutton</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Jeremy Siek</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/graph-v2">http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/graph-v2</a></td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">A number of additions and modifications to the Graph Library,
including:</p>
<ul class="last simple">
<li>Two new graph classes (undirected and directed) which are intended
to make the library more approachable for new developers</li>
<li>A suite of graph measures including degree and closeness
centrality, mean geodesic distance, eccentricity, and clustering
coefficients.</li>
<li>An algorithm for visiting all cycles in a directed graph (Tiernan's
from 1970ish). It works for undirected graphs too, but reports cycles
twice (one for each direction).</li>
<li>An algorithm for visiting all the cliques a graph (Bron&amp;Kerbosch).
Works for both directed and undirected.</li>
<li>Derived graph measures radius and diameter (from eccentricity) and
girth and circumference (from Tiernan), and clique number (from
Bron&amp;Kerbosch).</li>
<li>An exterior_property class that helps hides some of the weirdness
with exterior properties.</li>
<li>runtime and compile-time tests for the new algorithms.</li>
<li>a substantial amount of documentation</li>
<li>Graph cores, implemented by David Gleich (&#64;Stanford University)</li>
<li>Deterministic graph generators - capable of creating or inducing
specific types of graphs over a vertex set (e.g., star graph, wheel
graph, prism graph, etc). There are several other specific types that
could be added to this, but I haven't had the time just yet.</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="forward-fast-track">
<h2><a name="forward-fast-track">Forward (fast-track)</a></h2>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Tobias Schwinger</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">John Torjo</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?&amp;direction=0&amp;order=&amp;directory=X-Files">http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?&amp;direction=0&amp;order=&amp;directory=X-Files</a></td>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">A brute-force solution to the forwarding problem.</td>
</tr>
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<div class="section" id="singleton-fast-track">
<h2><a name="singleton-fast-track">Singleton (fast-track)</a></h2>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Tobias Schwinger</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">John Torjo</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?&amp;direction=0&amp;order=&amp;directory=X-Files">http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?&amp;direction=0&amp;order=&amp;directory=X-Files</a></td>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">Three thread-safe Singleton templates with an
easy-to-use interface.</td>
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</div>
<div class="section" id="factory-fast-track">
<h2><a name="factory-fast-track">Factory (fast-track)</a></h2>
<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
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<tbody valign="top">
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Tobias Schwinger</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">John Torjo</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?&amp;direction=0&amp;order=&amp;directory=X-Files">http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?&amp;direction=0&amp;order=&amp;directory=X-Files</a></td>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">Generic factories.</td>
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<div class="section" id="lexer">
<h2><a name="lexer">Lexer</a></h2>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Ben Hanson</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Need Volunteer</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&amp;filename=boost.lexer.zip&amp;directory=Strings%20">http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&amp;filename=boost.lexer.zip&amp;directory=Strings%20</a>-%20Text%20Processing&amp;</td>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">A programmable lexical analyser generator inspired by 'flex'.
Like flex, it is programmed by the use of regular expressions
and outputs a state machine as a number of DFAs utilising
equivalence classes for compression.</td>
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</div>
<div class="section" id="thread-safe-signals">
<h2><a name="thread-safe-signals">Thread-Safe Signals</a></h2>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Frank Hess</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Need Volunteer</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?&amp;direction=0&amp;order=&amp;directory=thread_safe_signals">http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?&amp;direction=0&amp;order=&amp;directory=thread_safe_signals</a></td>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">A thread-safe implementation of Boost.signals that
has some interface changes to accommodate thread safety, mostly with
respect to automatic connection management.</td>
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</div>
<div class="section" id="logging">
<h2><a name="logging">Logging</a></h2>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">John Torjo</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Need Volunteer</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://torjo.com/log2/">http://torjo.com/log2/</a></td>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">Used properly, logging is a very powerful tool. Besides aiding
debugging/testing, it can also show you how your application is
used. The Boost Logging Library allows just for that, supporting
a lot of scenarios, ranging from very simple (dumping all to one
destination), to very complex (multiple logs, some enabled/some
not, levels, etc). It features a very simple and flexible
interface, efficient filtering of messages, thread-safety,
formatters and destinations, easy manipulation of logs, finding
the best logger/filter classes based on your application's
needs, you can define your own macros and much more!</td>
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</tbody>
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</div>
<div class="section" id="flyweight">
<h2><a name="flyweight">Flyweight</a></h2>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Joaquín M López Muñoz</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Need Volunteer</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&amp;filename=flyweight.zip&amp;directory=Patterns">http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&amp;filename=flyweight.zip&amp;directory=Patterns</a></td>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">Flyweights are small-sized handle classes granting
constant access to shared common data, thus allowing for the
management of large amounts of entities within reasonable memory
limits. Boost.Flyweight makes it easy to use this common
programming idiom by providing the class template flyweight&lt;T&gt;,
which acts as a drop-in replacement for const T.</td>
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<div class="section" id="unordered-containers">
<h2><a name="unordered-containers">Unordered Containers</a></h2>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Daniel James</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Need Volunteer</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&amp;filename=unordered.zip&amp;directory=Containers">http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&amp;filename=unordered.zip&amp;directory=Containers</a></td>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">An implementation of the unordered containers specified
in TR1, with most of the changes from the recent draft standards.</td>
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<div class="section" id="libraries-under-development">
<h1><a name="libraries-under-development">Libraries under development</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="dataflow">
<h2><a name="dataflow">Dataflow</a></h2>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Stjepan Rajko</td>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">The Dataflow library provides generic support for data
producers, consumers, and connections between the two. It also
provides layers for several specific dataflow mechanisms, namely
Boost.Signals, VTK data/display pipelines, and plain
pointers. The Dataflow library came out of the Signal Network
GSoC project, mentored by Doug Gregor.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Status:</th><td class="field-body">I am polishing the Dataflow library for submission, and am expecting
to add it to the review queue in the next couple of months.
I am currently ironing out some faults in the design of the library,
filling in missing features, and testing it on / adapting it to
different dataflow mechanisms (currently VTK and soon
Boost.Iostreams). As soon as I'm pretty sure that things are going
the right way, I'll submit this to the review queue while I do the
finishing touches.</td>
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</tbody>
</table>
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<div class="section" id="constrained-value">
<h2><a name="constrained-value">Constrained Value</a></h2>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Robert Kawulak</td>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first"><a class="reference" href="http://rk.go.pl/f/constrained_value.zip">http://rk.go.pl/f/constrained_value.zip</a></p>
<p class="last"><a class="reference" href="http://rk.go.pl/r/constrained_value">http://rk.go.pl/r/constrained_value</a> (Documentation)</p>
</td>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">The Constrained Value library contains class templates
useful for creating constrained objects. The simplest example
of a constrained object is hour. The only valid values for an hour
within a day are integers from the range [0, 23]. With this library,
you can create a variable which behaves exactly like int, but does
not allow for assignment of values which do not belong to the
allowed range. The library doesn't focus only on constrained
objects that hold a value belonging to a specified range (i.e.,
bounded objects). Virtually any constraint can be imposed using
appropriate predicate. You can specify what happens in case of
assignment of an invalid value, e.g. an exception may be thrown or
the value may be adjusted to meet the constraint criterions.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Status:</th><td class="field-body">I'm planning to finish it in 1-2 months.</td>
</tr>
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<p>Please let us know of any libraries you are currently
developing that you intend to submit for review.</p>
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