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+ <div class="section-0">
+ <div class="section-title">
+ <h1>Review Wizard Status Report for November 2008</h1>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="section-body">
+ <h2><a name="news" id="news"></a>News</h2>
+<p>May 7 - Scope Exit Library Accepted - Awaiting SVN</p>
+<p>May 17 - Egg Library Rejected</p>
+<dl class="docutils">
+<dt>August 14 - Boost 1.36 Released</dt>
+<dd>New Libraries: Accumulators, Exception, Units, Unordered Containers</dd>
+</dl>
+<p>August 27 - Finite State Machines Rejected</p>
+<p>September 10 - Data Flow Signals Rejected</p>
+<p>September 30 - Phoenix Accepted Conditionally</p>
+<dl class="docutils">
+<dt>November 3 - Boost 1.37 Released</dt>
+<dd>New Library: Proto</dd>
+</dl>
+<p>November 10 - Thread-Safe Signals Accepted - Awaiting SVN</p>
+<p>November 25 - Globally Unique Identifier Library mini-Review in progress</p>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="older-issues">
+<h1>Older Issues</h1>
+<p>The Quantitative Units library, accepted in April 2007 is in SVN
+(listed as units).</p>
+<p>The Time Series Library, accepted in August 2007, has not yet been
+submitted
+to SVN.</p>
+<p>The Switch Library, accepted provisionally in January 2008,
+has not yet been submitted for mini-review and full acceptance.</p>
+<p>Property Map (Fast-Track) and Graph (Fast-Track) have been removed
+from the review queue. The author (Andrew Sutton) intends to submit a
+new version of this work at a later time.</p>
+<p>A few libraries have been reviewed and accepted into boost, but have
+not yet appeared in SVN as far as I can tell. Could some light be
+shed on the status of the following libraries? Apologies if I have
+simply overlooked any of them:</p>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Flyweight (Joaquin Ma Lopez Munoz)</li>
+<li>Floating Point Utilities (Johan Rade)</li>
+<li>Factory (Tobias Schwinger)</li>
+<li>Forward (Tobias Schwinger)</li>
+<li>Scope Exit (Alexander Nasonov)</li>
+<li>Time Series (Eric Niebler)</li>
+<li>Property Tree (Marcin Kalicinski) -- No documentation in SVN</li>
+</ul>
+<p>Any information on the whereabouts of these libraries would be greatly
+appreciated.</p>
+<p>For libraries that are still waiting to get into SVN, please get them
+ready and into the repository. The developers did some great work
+making the libraries, so don't miss the chance to share that work with
+others. Also notice that the review process page has been updated with
+a section on rights and responsibilities of library submitters.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="general-announcements">
+<h1>General Announcements</h1>
+<p>As always, we need experienced review managers. The review queue has
+been growing substantially but we have had few volunteers, so manage
+reviews if possible and if not please make sure to watch the review
+schedule and participate. 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, "garcia at osl dot iu dot edu"
+and "phillips at mps dot ohio-state dot edu" respectively.</p>
+<p>We are also suffering from a lack of reviewers. While we all
+understand time pressures and the need to complete paying work, the
+strength of Boost is based on the detailed and informed reviews
+submitted by you. A recent effort is trying to secure at least five
+people who promise to submit reviews as a precondition to starting
+the review period. Consider volunteering for this and even taking the
+time to create the review as early as possible. No rule says you can
+only work on a review during the review period.</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 a 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>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="review-queue">
+<h1>Review Queue</h1>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Lexer</li>
+<li>Boost.Range (Update)</li>
+<li>Shifted Pointer</li>
+<li>Logging</li>
+<li>Futures - Williams</li>
+<li>Futures - Gaskill</li>
+<li>Join</li>
+<li>Pimpl</li>
+<li>Constrained Value</li>
+<li>Thread Pool</li>
+<li>Polynomial</li>
+</ul>
+<hr class="docutils" />
+<div class="section" id="lexer">
+<h2>Lexer</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">Ben Hanson</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Eric Neibler</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference external" href="http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=boost.lexer.zip&directory=Strings%20-%20Text%20Processing">Boost Sandbox Vault</a></td>
+</tr>
+<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>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="boost-range-update">
+<h2>Boost.Range (Update)</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">Neil Groves</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Needed</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference external" href="http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=range_ex.zip">Boost Sandbox Vault</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">A significant update of the range library, including
+range adapters.</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="shifted-pointer">
+<h2>Shifted Pointer</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">Phil Bouchard</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Needed</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference external" href="http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?&direction=0&order=&directory=Memory">Boost Sandbox Vault</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">Smart pointers are in general optimized for a specific resource
+(memory usage, CPU cycles, user friendliness, ...) depending on
+what the user need to make the most of. The purpose of this smart
+pointer is mainly to allocate the reference counter (or owner) and
+the object itself at the same time so that dynamic memory management
+is simplified thus accelerated and cheaper on the memory map.</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="logging">
+<h2>Logging</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">John Torjo</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Gennadiy Rozental</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference external" href="http://torjo.com/log2/">http://torjo.com/log2/></td>
+</tr>
+<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>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="futures">
+<h2>Futures</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">Braddock Gaskill</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Tom Brinkman</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference external" href="http://braddock.com/~braddock/future/">http://braddock.com/~braddock/future/></td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">The goal of this library is to provide a definitive
+future implementation with the best features of the numerous
+implementations, proposals, and academic papers floating around, in
+the hopes to avoid multiple incompatible future implementations in
+libraries of related concepts (coroutines, active objects, asio,
+etc). This library hopes to explore the combined implementation of
+the best future concepts.</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id1">
+<h2>Futures</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"><p class="first">Anthony Williams</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Tom Brinkman</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><div class="first line-block">
+<div class="line"><a class="reference external" href="http://www.justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk/files/n2561_future.hpp">http://www.justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk/files/n2561_future.hpp>
+(code)</div>
+<div class="line"><a class="reference external" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2561.html">http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2561.html>
+(description)</div>
+</div>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">This library proposes a kind of return buffer that takes
+a value (or an exception) in one (sub-)thread and provides the value
+in another (controlling) thread. This buffer provides essentially
+two interfaces:</p>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>an interface to assign a value as class promise and</li>
+<li>an interface to wait for, query and retrieve the value (or exception)
+from the buffer as classes unique_future and shared_future. While a
+unique_future provides move semantics where the value (or exception)
+can be retrieved only once, the shared_future provides copy semantics
+where the value can be retrieved arbitrarily often.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>A typical procedure for working with promises and futures looks like:</p>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>control thread creates a promise,</li>
+<li>control thread gets associated future from promise,</li>
+<li>control thread starts sub-thread,</li>
+<li>sub-thread calls actual function and assigns the return value to
+the promise,</li>
+<li>control thread waits for future to become ready,</li>
+<li>control thread retrieves value from future.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>Also proposed is a packaged_task that wraps one callable object and
+provides another one that can be started in its own thread and assigns
+the return value (or exception) to a return buffer that can be
+accessed through one of the future classes.</p>
+<p>With a packaged_task a typical procedure looks like:</p>
+<ul class="last simple">
+<li>control thread creates a packaged_task with a callable object,</li>
+<li>control thread gets associated future from packaged_task,</li>
+<li>control thread starts sub-thread, which invokes the packaged_task,</li>
+<li>packaged_task calls the callable function and assigns the return value,</li>
+<li>control thread waits for future to become ready,</li>
+<li>control thread retrieves value from future.</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+<p>Notice that we are in the unusual position of having two very
+different libraries with the same goal in the queue at the same
+time. The Review Wizards would appreciate a discussion of the best way
+to hold these two reviews to produce the best possible addition to
+Boost.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="join">
+<h2>Join</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">Yigong Liu</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Needed</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference external" href="http://channel.sourceforge.net/">http://channel.sourceforge.net/></td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">Join is an asynchronous, message based C++ concurrency
+library based on join calculus. It is applicable both to
+multi-threaded applications and to the orchestration of asynchronous,
+event-based applications. It follows Comega's design and
+implementation and builds with Boost facilities. It provides a high
+level concurrency API with asynchronous methods, synchronous methods,
+and chords which are "join-patterns" defining the synchronization,
+asynchrony, and concurrency.</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="pimpl">
+<h2>Pimpl</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">Vladimir Batov</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Needed</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><div class="first last line-block">
+<div class="line"><a class="reference external" href="http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=Pimpl.zip&directory=&">Boost Sandbox Vault</a></div>
+<div class="line"><a class="reference external" href="http://www.ddj.com/cpp/205918714">http://www.ddj.com/cpp/205918714> (documentation)</div>
+</div>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">The Pimpl idiom is a simple yet robust technique to
+minimize coupling via the separation of interface and implementation
+and then implementation hiding. This library provides a convenient
+yet flexible and generic deployment technique for the Pimpl idiom.
+It's seemingly complete and broadly applicable, yet minimal, simple
+and pleasant to use.</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="constrained-value">
+<h2>Constrained Value</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"><p class="first">Robert Kawulak</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Jeff Garland</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first"><a class="reference external" href="http://rk.go.pl/f/constrained_value.zip">http://rk.go.pl/f/constrained_value.zip></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">The Boost Constrained Value library contains class templates useful
+for creating constrained objects. A simple example is an object
+representing an hour of a day, for which only integers from the range
+[0, 23] are valid values:</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+bounded_int<int, 0, 23>::type hour;
+hour = 20; // OK
+hour = 26; // exception!
+</pre>
+<p>Behavior in case of assignment of an invalid value can be customized. For
+instance, instead of throwing an exception as in the example above, the value
+may be adjusted to meet the constraint:</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+wrapping_int<int, 0, 255>::type buffer_index;
+buffer_index = 257; // OK: wraps the value to fit in the range
+assert( buffer_index == 1 );
+</pre>
+<p>The library doesn't focus only on bounded objects as in the examples above --
+virtually any constraint can be imposed by using a predicate:</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+// constraint (a predicate)
+struct is_odd {
+ bool operator () (int i) const
+ { return (i % 2) != 0; }
+};
+</pre>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+// and the usage is as simple as:
+constrained<int, is_odd> odd_int = 1;
+odd_int += 2; // OK
+++odd_int; // exception!
+</pre>
+<p class="last">The library has a policy-based design to allow for flexibility in defining
+constraints and behavior in case of assignment of invalid values. Policies may
+be configured at compile-time for maximum efficiency or may be changeable at
+runtime if such dynamic functionality is needed.</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="thread-pool">
+<h2>Thread Pool</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"><p class="first">Oliver Kowalke</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Needed</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first"><a class="reference external" href="http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&amp;filename=boost-threadpool.2.tar.gz&amp;directory=Concurrent%20Programming">Boost Sandbox Vault</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">The library provides:</p>
+<ul class="last">
+<li><dl class="first docutils">
+<dt>thread creation policies: determines the management of worker threads</dt>
+<dd><ul class="first last simple">
+<li>fixed set of threads in pool</li>
+<li>create workerthreads on demand (depending on context)</li>
+<li>let worker threads ime out after certain idle time</li>
+</ul>
+</dd>
+</dl>
+</li>
+<li><dl class="first docutils">
+<dt>channel policies: manages access to queued tasks</dt>
+<dd><ul class="first last simple">
+<li>bounded channel with high and low watermark for queuing tasks</li>
+<li>unbounded channel with unlimited number of queued tasks</li>
+<li>rendezvous syncron hand-over between producer and consumer threads</li>
+</ul>
+</dd>
+</dl>
+</li>
+<li><dl class="first docutils">
+<dt>queueing policy: determines how tasks will be removed from channel</dt>
+<dd><ul class="first last simple">
+<li>FIFO</li>
+<li>LIFO</li>
+<li>priority queue (attribute assigned to task)</li>
+<li>smart insertions and extractions (for instance remove oldest task with
+certain attribute by newst one)</li>
+</ul>
+</dd>
+</dl>
+</li>
+<li><p class="first">tasks can be chained and lazy submit of taks is also supported (thanks to
+Braddocks future library).</p>
+</li>
+<li><p class="first">returns a task object from the submit function. The task it self can
+be interrupted if its is cooperative (means it has some interruption points
+in its code -> <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">this_thread::interruption_point()</span></tt> ).</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="polynomial">
+<h2>Polynomial</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"><p class="first">Pawel Kieliszczyk</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Needed</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first"><a class="reference external" href="http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&amp;filename=polynomial.zip">Boost Sandbox Vault</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">The library was written to enable fast and faithful polynomial manipulation.
+It provides:</p>
+<ul class="last simple">
+<li>main arithmetic operators (+, -, * using FFT, /, %),</li>
+<li>gcd,</li>
+<li>different methods of evaluation (Horner Scheme, Compensated Horner
+Algorithm, by preconditioning),</li>
+<li>derivatives and integrals,</li>
+<li>interpolation,</li>
+<li>conversions between various polynomial forms (special functions for
+creating Chebyshev, Hermite, Laguerre and Legendre form).</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="libraries-under-development">
+<h1>Libraries under development</h1>
+<p>Please let us know of any libraries you are currently
+developing that you intend to submit for review.</p>
+<div class="section" id="id2">
+<h2>Logging</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">Andrey Semashev</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference external" href="http://boost-log.sourceforge.net">http://boost-log.sourceforge.net></td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">I am working on a logging library, online docs available here:
+The functionality is quite ready, the docs are at about 70% ready. There
+are a few examples, but no tests yet (I'm using the examples for
+testing). I hope to submit it for a review at early 2009.</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="mirror">
+<h2>Mirror</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"><p class="first">Matus Chochlik</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><div class="first line-block">
+<div class="line"><a class="reference external" href="http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/mirror/doc/index.html">http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/mirror/doc/index.html></div>
+<div class="line"><a class="reference external" href="http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=mirror.zip">Boost Sandbox Vault</a></div>
+</div>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">The aim of the Mirror library is to provide useful meta-data at both
+compile-time and run-time about common C++ constructs like namespaces,
+types, typedef-ined types, classes and their base classes and member
+attributes, instances, etc. and to provide generic interfaces for
+their introspection.</p>
+<p>Mirror is designed with the principle of stratification in mind and
+tries to be as less intrusive as possible. New or existing classes do
+not need to be designed to directly support Mirror and no Mirror
+related code is necessary in the class' definition, as far as some
+general guidelines are followed</p>
+<p>Most important features of the Mirror library that are currently
+implemented include:</p>
+<blockquote>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Namespace-name inspection.</li>
+<li>Inspection of the whole scope in which a namespace is defined</li>
+<li>Type-name querying, with the support for typedef-ined typenames
+and typenames of derived types like pointers, references,
+cv-qualified types, arrays, functions and template names. Names
+with or without nested-name-specifiers can be queried.</li>
+<li>Inspection of the scope in which a type has been defined</li>
+<li>Uniform and generic inspection of class' base classes. One can
+inspect traits of the base classes for example their types,
+whether they are inherited virtually or not and the access
+specifier (private, protected, public).</li>
+<li>Uniform and generic inspection of class' member attributes. At
+compile-time the count of class' attributes and their types,
+storage class specifiers (static, mutable) and some other traits
+can be queried. At run-time one can uniformly query the names
+and/or values (when given an instance of the reflected class) of
+the member attributes and sequentially execute a custom functor
+on every attribute of a class.</li>
+<li>Traversals of a class' (or generally type's) structure with user
+defined visitors, which are optionally working on an provided
+instance of the type or just on it's structure without any
+run-time data. These visitors are guided by Mirror through the
+structure of the class and optionally provided with contextual
+information about the current position in the traversal.</li>
+</ul>
+</blockquote>
+<p class="last">I'm hoping to have it review ready in the next few months.</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="interval-template-library">
+<h2>Interval Template Library</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"><p class="first">Joachim Faulhaber</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">The Interval Template Library (Itl) provides intervals
+and two kinds of interval containers: Interval_sets and
+interval_maps. Interval_sets and maps can be used just
+as sets or maps of elements. Yet they are much more
+space and time efficient when the elements occur in
+contiguous chunks: intervals. This is obviously the case
+in many problem domains, particularly in fields that deal
+with problems related to date and time.</p>
+<p>Interval containers allow for intersection with interval_sets
+to work with segmentation. For instance you might want
+to intersect an interval container with a grid of months
+and then iterate over those months.</p>
+<p>Finally interval_maps provide aggregation on
+associated values, if added intervals overlap with
+intervals that are stored in the interval_map. This
+feature is called aggregate on overlap. It is shown by
+example:</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+typedef set<string> guests;
+interval_map<time, guests> party;
+guests mary; mary.insert("Mary");
+guests harry; harry.insert("Harry");
+party += make_pair(interval<time>::rightopen(20:00, 22:00),mary);
+party += make_pair(interval<time>::rightopen_(21:00, 23:00),harry);
+// party now contains
+[20:00, 21:00)->{"Mary"}
+[21:00, 22:00)->{"Harry","Mary"} //guest sets aggregated on overlap
+[22:00, 23:00)->{"Harry"}
+</pre>
+<p class="last">As can be seen from the example an interval_map has both
+a decompositional behavior (on the time dimension) as well as
+a accumulative one (on the associated values).</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="stlconstanttimesize">
+<h2>StlConstantTimeSize</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">Vicente J. Botet Escriba</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference external" href="http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=constant_time_size.zip&directory=Containers&">Boost Sandbox Vault</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">Boost.StlConstantTimeSize Defines a wrapper to the stl container list
+giving the user the chioice for the complexity of the size function:
+linear time, constant time or quasi-constant. In future versions the
+library could include a similar wrapper to slist.</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="interthreads">
+<h2>InterThreads</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"><p class="first">Vicente J. Botet Escriba</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><div class="first line-block">
+<div class="line"><a class="reference external" href="http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=interthreads.zip&directory=Concurrent%20Programming&">Boost Sandbox Vault</a></div>
+<div class="line"><a class="reference external" href="https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/interthreads">Boost Sandbox</a></div>
+<div class="line">Html doc included only on the Vault</div>
+</div>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Boost.InterThreads extends Boost.Threads adding some features:</p>
+<blockquote>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>thread decorator: thread_decorator allows to define
+setup/cleanup functions which will be called only once by
+thread: setup before the thread function and cleanup at thread
+exit.</li>
+<li>thread specific shared pointer: this is an extension of the
+thread_specific_ptr providing access to this thread specific
+context from other threads. As it is shared the stored pointer
+is a shared_ptr instead of a raw one.</li>
+<li>thread keep alive mechanism: this mechanism allows to detect
+threads that do not prove that they are alive by calling to the
+keep_alive_point regularly. When a thread is declared dead a
+user provided function is called, which by default will abort
+the program.</li>
+<li>thread tuple: defines a thread groupe where the number of
+threads is know statically and the threads are created at
+construction time.</li>
+<li>set_once: a synchonizer that allows to set a variable only once,
+notifying to the variable value to whatever is waiting for that.</li>
+<li>thread_tuple_once: an extension of the boost::thread_tuple which
+allows to join the thread finishing the first, using for that
+the set_once synchronizer.</li>
+<li>thread_group_once: an extension of the boost::thread_group which
+allows to join the thread finishing the first, using for that
+the set_once synchronizer.</li>
+</ul>
+</blockquote>
+<p>(thread_decorator and thread_specific_shared_ptr) are based on the
+original implementation of threadalert written by Roland Schwarz.</p>
+<p class="last">Boost.InterThreads extends Boost.Threads adding thread setup/cleanup
+decorator, thread specific shared pointer, thread keep alive
+mechanism and thread tuples.</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</div>
+</div>
+</div>
+</body>
+</html>
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+==============================================
+Review Wizard Status Report for November 2008
+==============================================
+
+News
+====
+
+
+May 7 - Scope Exit Library Accepted - Awaiting SVN
+
+May 17 - Egg Library Rejected
+
+August 14 - Boost 1.36 Released
+ New Libraries: Accumulators, Exception, Units, Unordered Containers
+
+August 27 - Finite State Machines Rejected
+
+September 10 - Data Flow Signals Rejected
+
+September 30 - Phoenix Accepted Conditionally
+
+November 3 - Boost 1.37 Released
+ New Library: Proto
+
+November 10 - Thread-Safe Signals Accepted - Awaiting SVN
+
+November 25 - Globally Unique Identifier Library mini-Review in progress
+
+
+Older Issues
+============
+
+The Quantitative Units library, accepted in April 2007 is in SVN
+(listed as units).
+
+The Time Series Library, accepted in August 2007, has not yet been
+submitted
+to SVN.
+
+The Switch Library, accepted provisionally in January 2008,
+has not yet been submitted for mini-review and full acceptance.
+
+Property Map (Fast-Track) and Graph (Fast-Track) have been removed
+from the review queue. The author (Andrew Sutton) intends to submit a
+new version of this work at a later time.
+
+
+A few libraries have been reviewed and accepted into boost, but have
+not yet appeared in SVN as far as I can tell. Could some light be
+shed on the status of the following libraries? Apologies if I have
+simply overlooked any of them:
+
+
+* Flyweight (Joaquin Ma Lopez Munoz)
+* Floating Point Utilities (Johan Rade)
+* Factory (Tobias Schwinger)
+* Forward (Tobias Schwinger)
+* Scope Exit (Alexander Nasonov)
+* Time Series (Eric Niebler)
+* Property Tree (Marcin Kalicinski) -- No documentation in SVN
+
+Any information on the whereabouts of these libraries would be greatly
+appreciated.
+
+
+
+For libraries that are still waiting to get into SVN, please get them
+ready and into the repository. The developers did some great work
+making the libraries, so don't miss the chance to share that work with
+others. Also notice that the review process page has been updated with
+a section on rights and responsibilities of library submitters.
+
+
+
+General Announcements
+=====================
+
+As always, we need experienced review managers. The review queue has
+been growing substantially but we have had few volunteers, so manage
+reviews if possible and if not please make sure to watch the review
+schedule and participate. 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, "garcia at osl dot iu dot edu"
+and "phillips at mps dot ohio-state dot edu" respectively.
+
+We are also suffering from a lack of reviewers. While we all
+understand time pressures and the need to complete paying work, the
+strength of Boost is based on the detailed and informed reviews
+submitted by you. A recent effort is trying to secure at least five
+people who promise to submit reviews as a precondition to starting
+the review period. Consider volunteering for this and even taking the
+time to create the review as early as possible. No rule says you can
+only work on a review during the review period.
+
+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.
+
+If you're a 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.
+
+
+Review Queue
+============
+
+* Lexer
+* Boost.Range (Update)
+* Shifted Pointer
+* Logging
+* Futures - Williams
+* Futures - Gaskill
+* Join
+* Pimpl
+* Constrained Value
+* Thread Pool
+* Polynomial
+
+--------------------
+
+
+Lexer
+-----
+:Author: Ben Hanson
+
+:Review Manager: Eric Neibler
+
+:Download: `Boost Sandbox Vault <http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=boost.lexer.zip&directory=Strings%20-%20Text%20Processing>`__
+
+:Description:
+ 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.
+
+
+Boost.Range (Update)
+--------------------
+:Author: Neil Groves
+
+:Review Manager: Needed
+
+:Download: `Boost Sandbox Vault <http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=range_ex.zip>`__
+
+:Description: A significant update of the range library, including
+ range adapters.
+
+Shifted Pointer
+---------------
+:Author: Phil Bouchard
+
+:Review Manager: Needed
+
+:Download: `Boost Sandbox Vault <http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?&direction=0&order=&directory=Memory>`__
+
+:Description:
+ Smart pointers are in general optimized for a specific resource
+ (memory usage, CPU cycles, user friendliness, ...) depending on
+ what the user need to make the most of. The purpose of this smart
+ pointer is mainly to allocate the reference counter (or owner) and
+ the object itself at the same time so that dynamic memory management
+ is simplified thus accelerated and cheaper on the memory map.
+
+
+Logging
+-------
+:Author: John Torjo
+
+:Review Manager: Gennadiy Rozental
+
+:Download: http://torjo.com/log2/
+
+:Description: 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!
+
+
+Futures
+-------
+:Author: Braddock Gaskill
+
+:Review Manager: Tom Brinkman
+
+:Download: http://braddock.com/~braddock/future/
+
+:Description: The goal of this library is to provide a definitive
+ future implementation with the best features of the numerous
+ implementations, proposals, and academic papers floating around, in
+ the hopes to avoid multiple incompatible future implementations in
+ libraries of related concepts (coroutines, active objects, asio,
+ etc). This library hopes to explore the combined implementation of
+ the best future concepts.
+
+
+Futures
+-------
+:Author: Anthony Williams
+
+:Review Manager: Tom Brinkman
+
+:Download: | http://www.justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk/files/n2561_future.hpp
+ (code)
+ | http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2561.html
+ (description)
+
+:Description: This library proposes a kind of return buffer that takes
+ a value (or an exception) in one (sub-)thread and provides the value
+ in another (controlling) thread. This buffer provides essentially
+ two interfaces:
+
+ * an interface to assign a value as class promise and
+ * an interface to wait for, query and retrieve the value (or exception)
+ from the buffer as classes unique_future and shared_future. While a
+ unique_future provides move semantics where the value (or exception)
+ can be retrieved only once, the shared_future provides copy semantics
+ where the value can be retrieved arbitrarily often.
+
+ A typical procedure for working with promises and futures looks like:
+
+ * control thread creates a promise,
+ * control thread gets associated future from promise,
+ * control thread starts sub-thread,
+ * sub-thread calls actual function and assigns the return value to
+ the promise,
+ * control thread waits for future to become ready,
+ * control thread retrieves value from future.
+
+ Also proposed is a packaged_task that wraps one callable object and
+ provides another one that can be started in its own thread and assigns
+ the return value (or exception) to a return buffer that can be
+ accessed through one of the future classes.
+
+ With a packaged_task a typical procedure looks like:
+
+ * control thread creates a packaged_task with a callable object,
+ * control thread gets associated future from packaged_task,
+ * control thread starts sub-thread, which invokes the packaged_task,
+ * packaged_task calls the callable function and assigns the return value,
+ * control thread waits for future to become ready,
+ * control thread retrieves value from future.
+
+
+Notice that we are in the unusual position of having two very
+different libraries with the same goal in the queue at the same
+time. The Review Wizards would appreciate a discussion of the best way
+to hold these two reviews to produce the best possible addition to
+Boost.
+
+
+Join
+----
+:Author: Yigong Liu
+
+:Review Manager: Needed
+
+:Download: http://channel.sourceforge.net/
+
+:Description: Join is an asynchronous, message based C++ concurrency
+ library based on join calculus. It is applicable both to
+ multi-threaded applications and to the orchestration of asynchronous,
+ event-based applications. It follows Comega's design and
+ implementation and builds with Boost facilities. It provides a high
+ level concurrency API with asynchronous methods, synchronous methods,
+ and chords which are "join-patterns" defining the synchronization,
+ asynchrony, and concurrency.
+
+
+Pimpl
+-----
+:Author: Vladimir Batov
+
+:Review Manager: Needed
+
+:Download: | `Boost Sandbox Vault <http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=Pimpl.zip&directory=&>`__
+ | http://www.ddj.com/cpp/205918714 (documentation)
+
+:Description: The Pimpl idiom is a simple yet robust technique to
+ minimize coupling via the separation of interface and implementation
+ and then implementation hiding. This library provides a convenient
+ yet flexible and generic deployment technique for the Pimpl idiom.
+ It's seemingly complete and broadly applicable, yet minimal, simple
+ and pleasant to use.
+
+
+
+Constrained Value
+-----------------
+:Author: Robert Kawulak
+
+:Review Manager: Jeff Garland
+
+:Download: http://rk.go.pl/f/constrained_value.zip
+
+:Description:
+
+ The Boost Constrained Value library contains class templates useful
+ for creating constrained objects. A simple example is an object
+ representing an hour of a day, for which only integers from the range
+ [0, 23] are valid values:
+
+ ::
+
+ bounded_int<int, 0, 23>::type hour;
+ hour = 20; // OK
+ hour = 26; // exception!
+
+ Behavior in case of assignment of an invalid value can be customized. For
+ instance, instead of throwing an exception as in the example above, the value
+ may be adjusted to meet the constraint:
+
+ ::
+
+ wrapping_int<int, 0, 255>::type buffer_index;
+ buffer_index = 257; // OK: wraps the value to fit in the range
+ assert( buffer_index == 1 );
+
+ The library doesn't focus only on bounded objects as in the examples above --
+ virtually any constraint can be imposed by using a predicate:
+
+ ::
+
+ // constraint (a predicate)
+ struct is_odd {
+ bool operator () (int i) const
+ { return (i % 2) != 0; }
+ };
+
+ ::
+
+ // and the usage is as simple as:
+ constrained<int, is_odd> odd_int = 1;
+ odd_int += 2; // OK
+ ++odd_int; // exception!
+
+ The library has a policy-based design to allow for flexibility in defining
+ constraints and behavior in case of assignment of invalid values. Policies may
+ be configured at compile-time for maximum efficiency or may be changeable at
+ runtime if such dynamic functionality is needed.
+
+
+Thread Pool
+-----------
+
+:Author: Oliver Kowalke
+
+:Review Manager: Needed
+
+:Download: `Boost Sandbox Vault <http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=boost-threadpool.2.tar.gz&directory=Concurrent%20Programming>`__
+
+:Description:
+ The library provides:
+
+ - thread creation policies: determines the management of worker threads
+ - fixed set of threads in pool
+ - create workerthreads on demand (depending on context)
+ - let worker threads ime out after certain idle time
+
+ - channel policies: manages access to queued tasks
+ - bounded channel with high and low watermark for queuing tasks
+ - unbounded channel with unlimited number of queued tasks
+ - rendezvous syncron hand-over between producer and consumer threads
+
+ - queueing policy: determines how tasks will be removed from channel
+ - FIFO
+ - LIFO
+ - priority queue (attribute assigned to task)
+ - smart insertions and extractions (for instance remove oldest task with
+ certain attribute by newst one)
+
+ - tasks can be chained and lazy submit of taks is also supported (thanks to
+ Braddocks future library).
+
+ - returns a task object from the submit function. The task it self can
+ be interrupted if its is cooperative (means it has some interruption points
+ in its code -> ``this_thread::interruption_point()`` ).
+
+
+
+Polynomial
+----------
+:Author: Pawel Kieliszczyk
+
+:Review Manager: Needed
+
+:Download: `Boost Sandbox Vault <http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=polynomial.zip>`__
+
+:Description:
+ The library was written to enable fast and faithful polynomial manipulation.
+ It provides:
+
+ - main arithmetic operators (+, -, * using FFT, /, %),
+ - gcd,
+ - different methods of evaluation (Horner Scheme, Compensated Horner
+ Algorithm, by preconditioning),
+ - derivatives and integrals,
+ - interpolation,
+ - conversions between various polynomial forms (special functions for
+ creating Chebyshev, Hermite, Laguerre and Legendre form).
+
+
+
+
+
+Libraries under development
+===========================
+
+
+Please let us know of any libraries you are currently
+developing that you intend to submit for review.
+
+
+Logging
+-------
+:Author: Andrey Semashev
+
+:Download: http://boost-log.sourceforge.net
+
+:Description:
+ I am working on a logging library, online docs available here:
+ The functionality is quite ready, the docs are at about 70% ready. There
+ are a few examples, but no tests yet (I'm using the examples for
+ testing). I hope to submit it for a review at early 2009.
+
+
+Mirror
+------
+:Author: Matus Chochlik
+
+:Download: | http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/mirror/doc/index.html
+ | `Boost Sandbox Vault <http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=mirror.zip>`__
+
+:Description:
+
+ The aim of the Mirror library is to provide useful meta-data at both
+ compile-time and run-time about common C++ constructs like namespaces,
+ types, typedef-ined types, classes and their base classes and member
+ attributes, instances, etc. and to provide generic interfaces for
+ their introspection.
+
+ Mirror is designed with the principle of stratification in mind and
+ tries to be as less intrusive as possible. New or existing classes do
+ not need to be designed to directly support Mirror and no Mirror
+ related code is necessary in the class' definition, as far as some
+ general guidelines are followed
+
+ Most important features of the Mirror library that are currently
+ implemented include:
+
+ * Namespace-name inspection.
+
+ * Inspection of the whole scope in which a namespace is defined
+
+ * Type-name querying, with the support for typedef-ined typenames
+ and typenames of derived types like pointers, references,
+ cv-qualified types, arrays, functions and template names. Names
+ with or without nested-name-specifiers can be queried.
+
+ * Inspection of the scope in which a type has been defined
+
+ * Uniform and generic inspection of class' base classes. One can
+ inspect traits of the base classes for example their types,
+ whether they are inherited virtually or not and the access
+ specifier (private, protected, public).
+
+ * Uniform and generic inspection of class' member attributes. At
+ compile-time the count of class' attributes and their types,
+ storage class specifiers (static, mutable) and some other traits
+ can be queried. At run-time one can uniformly query the names
+ and/or values (when given an instance of the reflected class) of
+ the member attributes and sequentially execute a custom functor
+ on every attribute of a class.
+
+ * Traversals of a class' (or generally type's) structure with user
+ defined visitors, which are optionally working on an provided
+ instance of the type or just on it's structure without any
+ run-time data. These visitors are guided by Mirror through the
+ structure of the class and optionally provided with contextual
+ information about the current position in the traversal.
+
+ I'm hoping to have it review ready in the next few months.
+
+
+
+
+Interval Template Library
+-------------------------
+:Author: Joachim Faulhaber
+
+:Description:
+
+ The Interval Template Library (Itl) provides intervals
+ and two kinds of interval containers: Interval_sets and
+ interval_maps. Interval_sets and maps can be used just
+ as sets or maps of elements. Yet they are much more
+ space and time efficient when the elements occur in
+ contiguous chunks: intervals. This is obviously the case
+ in many problem domains, particularly in fields that deal
+ with problems related to date and time.
+
+ Interval containers allow for intersection with interval_sets
+ to work with segmentation. For instance you might want
+ to intersect an interval container with a grid of months
+ and then iterate over those months.
+
+ Finally interval_maps provide aggregation on
+ associated values, if added intervals overlap with
+ intervals that are stored in the interval_map. This
+ feature is called aggregate on overlap. It is shown by
+ example:
+
+ ::
+
+ typedef set<string> guests;
+ interval_map<time, guests> party;
+ guests mary; mary.insert("Mary");
+ guests harry; harry.insert("Harry");
+ party += make_pair(interval<time>::rightopen(20:00, 22:00),mary);
+ party += make_pair(interval<time>::rightopen_(21:00, 23:00),harry);
+ // party now contains
+ [20:00, 21:00)->{"Mary"}
+ [21:00, 22:00)->{"Harry","Mary"} //guest sets aggregated on overlap
+ [22:00, 23:00)->{"Harry"}
+
+ As can be seen from the example an interval_map has both
+ a decompositional behavior (on the time dimension) as well as
+ a accumulative one (on the associated values).
+
+StlConstantTimeSize
+-------------------
+:Author: Vicente J. Botet Escriba
+
+:Download: `Boost Sandbox Vault <http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=constant_time_size.zip&directory=Containers&>`__
+
+:Description:
+
+ Boost.StlConstantTimeSize Defines a wrapper to the stl container list
+ giving the user the chioice for the complexity of the size function:
+ linear time, constant time or quasi-constant. In future versions the
+ library could include a similar wrapper to slist.
+
+
+InterThreads
+-------------------
+:Author: Vicente J. Botet Escriba
+
+:Download: | `Boost Sandbox Vault <http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=interthreads.zip&directory=Concurrent%20Programming&>`__
+ | `Boost Sandbox <https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/interthreads>`__
+ | Html doc included only on the Vault
+
+:Description:
+
+ Boost.InterThreads extends Boost.Threads adding some features:
+
+ * thread decorator: thread_decorator allows to define
+ setup/cleanup functions which will be called only once by
+ thread: setup before the thread function and cleanup at thread
+ exit.
+ * thread specific shared pointer: this is an extension of the
+ thread_specific_ptr providing access to this thread specific
+ context from other threads. As it is shared the stored pointer
+ is a shared_ptr instead of a raw one.
+ * thread keep alive mechanism: this mechanism allows to detect
+ threads that do not prove that they are alive by calling to the
+ keep_alive_point regularly. When a thread is declared dead a
+ user provided function is called, which by default will abort
+ the program.
+ * thread tuple: defines a thread groupe where the number of
+ threads is know statically and the threads are created at
+ construction time.
+ * set_once: a synchonizer that allows to set a variable only once,
+ notifying to the variable value to whatever is waiting for that.
+ * thread_tuple_once: an extension of the boost::thread_tuple which
+ allows to join the thread finishing the first, using for that
+ the set_once synchronizer.
+ * thread_group_once: an extension of the boost::thread_group which
+ allows to join the thread finishing the first, using for that
+ the set_once synchronizer.
+
+
+ (thread_decorator and thread_specific_shared_ptr) are based on the
+ original implementation of threadalert written by Roland Schwarz.
+
+ Boost.InterThreads extends Boost.Threads adding thread setup/cleanup
+ decorator, thread specific shared pointer, thread keep alive
+ mechanism and thread tuples.