Subject: [Boost-commit] svn:boost r75642 - trunk/libs
From: vicente.botet_at_[hidden]
Date: 2011-11-23 17:01:41
Author: viboes
Date: 2011-11-23 17:01:41 EST (Wed, 23 Nov 2011)
New Revision: 75642
URL: http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/75642
Log:
Merged some categories and reorder them
Text files modified:
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1 files changed, 255 insertions(+), 284 deletions(-)
Modified: trunk/libs/libraries.htm
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--- trunk/libs/libraries.htm (original)
+++ trunk/libs/libraries.htm 2011-11-23 17:01:41 EST (Wed, 23 Nov 2011)
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
<dt>Libraries Listed by Category</dt>
<dl>
<dt>Algorithms</dt>
+ <dt>Broken Compiler Workarounds</dt>
<dt>Concurrent Programming</dt>
<dt>Containers</dt>
<dt>Correctness and Testing</dt>
@@ -49,7 +50,6 @@
<dt>Domain Specific</dt>
<dt>Function Objects and Higher-order Programming</dt>
<dt>Generic Programming</dt>
- <dt>Idioms</dt>
<dt>Image Processing</dt>
<dt>Input/Output<a href="#Memory"></a></dt>
<dt>Inter-language Support</dt>
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
<dt>Math and Numerics</dt>
<dt>Memory</dt>
<dt>Parsing</dt>
- <dt>Patterns</dt>
+ <dt>Patterns and Idioms</dt>
<dt>Preprocessor Metaprogramming</dt>
<dt>Programming Interfaces</dt>
<dt>State Machines</dt>
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@
<dt>System</dt>
<dt>Template Metaprogramming</dt>
<dt>Miscellaneous</dt>
- <dt>Broken Compiler Workarounds</dt>
</dl>
<dt>Libraries Retired from Boost</dt>
</dl>
@@ -342,30 +341,56 @@
<h2>Libraries Listed by <a name="Category">Category</a></h2>
-<h3><a name="String">String</a> and text processing</h3>
+
+<h3><a name="Algorithms">Algorithms</a></h3>
<ul>
- <li>conversion/lexical_cast - <tt>lexical_cast</tt>
- class template, from Kevlin Henney.</li>
- <li>format - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
- operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
- <li>iostreams - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li>
- <li>locale - Provide localization and Unicode
- handling tools for C++, from Artyom Beilis</li>
- <li>regex - Regular expression
- library, from John Maddock</li>
- <li>spirit - LL parser framework
- represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
- Guzman, Hartmut Kaiser, Dan Nuffer and team.</li>
+ <li>foreach - BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily
+ iterating over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler.</li>
+ <li>gil - Generic Image Library, from
+ Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.</li>
+ <li>geometry - Geometry Library, from
+ Barend Gehrels, Bruno Lalande and Mateusz Loskot.</li>
+ <li>graph -
+ Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
+ and a University of Notre Dame team; now maintained by Andrew Sutton and Jeremiah Willcock.</li>
+ <li>minmax - standard library
+ extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations,
+ from Hervé Brönnimann.</li>
+ <li>range - A new infrastructure
+ for generic algorithms that builds on top
+ of the new iterator concepts, from Thorsten Ottosen.</li>
<li>string_algo -
- String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
- <li>tokenizer - Break of a string or other
- character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela</li>
- <li>wave - Standards conformant implementation of the mandated C99/C++ preprocessor functionality packed behind an easy to use iterator interface, from Hartmut Kaiser.</li>
- <li>xpressive - Regular expressions that can be written as strings or as expression templates,
- and that can refer to each other and themselves recursively with the power of context-free grammars, from Eric Niebler.</li>
+ String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
+ <li>utility - Class <b>next(),</b> <b>prior()</b>
+ function templates, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Broken Compiler <a name="workarounds">Workarounds</a></h3>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>compatibility - Help for
+ non-conforming standard libraries, from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens
+ Maurer.</li>
+ <li>config - Helps boost
+ library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not
+ intended for library users.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3><a name="Concurrent">Concurrent</a> Programming</h3>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>asio - Portable networking and other low-level
+ I/O, including sockets, timers, hostname resolution, socket iostreams, serial
+ ports, file descriptors and Windows HANDLEs, from Chris Kohlhoff.</li>
+ <li>interprocess - Shared memory, memory mapped files,
+ process-shared mutexes, condition variables, containers and allocators, from Ion Gaztañaga</li>
+ <li>MPI - Message Passing Interface library, for use in distributed-memory parallel application programming, from Douglas Gregor and Matthias Troyer.</li>
+ <li>thread - Portable C++
+ multi-threading, from William Kempf.</li>
</ul>
+
<h3><a name="Containers">Containers</a></h3>
<ul>
@@ -405,49 +430,69 @@
discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
</ul>
-<h3><a name="Iterators">Iterators</a></h3>
+<h3><a name="Correctness">Correctness</a> and testing</h3>
<ul>
- <li>gil - Generic Image Library, from
- Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.</li>
- <li>graph -
- Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
- and a University of Notre Dame team; now maintained by Andrew Sutton and Jeremiah Willcock.</li>
- <li>iterators - Iterator
- construction framework, adaptors, concepts, and more, from Dave
- Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and Thomas Witt.</li>
- <li>operators - Templates
- ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
- and Jeremy Siek.</li>
- <li>tokenizer - Break of a string or other
- character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.</li>
+ <li>concept check
+ - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
+ <li>static_assert
+ - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
+ Maddock.</li>
+ <li>test - Support for simple program testing,
+ full unit testing, and for program
+ execution monitoring, from Gennadiy Rozental.</li>
</ul>
-<h3><a name="Algorithms">Algorithms</a></h3>
+<h3><a name="Data">Data</a> structures</h3>
<ul>
- <li>foreach - BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily
- iterating over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler.</li>
- <li>gil - Generic Image Library, from
- Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.</li>
- <li>geometry - Geometry Library, from
- Barend Gehrels, Bruno Lalande and Mateusz Loskot.</li>
- <li>graph -
- Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
- and a University of Notre Dame team; now maintained by Andrew Sutton and Jeremiah Willcock.</li>
- <li>minmax - standard library
- extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations,
- from Hervé Brönnimann.</li>
- <li>range - A new infrastructure
- for generic algorithms that builds on top
- of the new iterator concepts, from Thorsten Ottosen.</li>
- <li>string_algo -
- String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
- <li>utility - Class <b>next(),</b> <b>prior()</b>
- function templates, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
+ <li>any - Safe, generic container for single
+ values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney.</li>
+ <li>bimap - Bidirectional maps, from Matias Capeletto.
+ </li>
+ <li>container - Standard library containers and extensions, from Ion Gaztañaga</li>
+ <li>compressed_pair
+ - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
+ Hinnant, et al.</li>
+ <li>fusion -
+ Library for working with tuples, including various containers, algorithms, etc.
+ From Joel de Guzman and Dan Marsden and Tobias Schwinger.</li>
+ <li>icl -
+ Interval Container Library, interval sets and maps and aggregation
+ of associated values, from Joachim Faulhaber.</li>
+ <li>intrusive - Intrusive containers and algorithms, from Ion Gaztañaga</li>
+ <li>multi_index - Containers with
+ multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaquín M López
+ Muñoz.</li>
+ <li>optional - Discriminated-union
+ wrapper for optional values, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
+ <li>pointer container
+ - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li>
+ <li>property tree - A tree data
+ structure especially suited to storing configuration data, from Marcin
+ Kalicinski and Sebastian Redl.</li>
+ <li>tribool - 3-state boolean type library, from Doug Gregor.</li>
+
+ <li>tuple - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more,
+ from Jaakko Järvi.</li>
+ <li>variant - Safe, generic, stack-based
+ discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3><a name="Domain">Domain Specific</a></h3>
+<ul>
+ <li>chrono - Useful time utilities,
+ from Howard Hinnant, Beman Dawes, Vicente J. Botet Escribá.</li>
+ <li>crc - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle
+ Walker.</li>
+ <li>date_time - Date-Time library from Jeff Garland.</li>
+ <li>units -
+ Zero-overhead dimensional analysis and unit/quantity
+ manipulation and conversion, from Matthias Schabel and Steven Watanabe.</li>
+ <li>uuid - A universally unique identifier, from Andy Tompkins.</li>
</ul>
-<h3><a name="Function-objects">Function objects</a> and higher-order programming</h3>
+<h3><a name="Function-objects">Function Objects</a> and Higher-order Programming</h3>
<ul>
<li>bind and mem_fn - Generalized binders for function/object/pointers and member functions, from Peter Dimov.</li>
@@ -515,49 +560,94 @@
Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
</ul>
-<h3>Template <a name="Metaprogramming"> Metaprogramming</a></h3>
+<h3><a name="Image-processing">Image Processing</a></h3>
+<ul>
+ <li>gil - Generic Image Library, from
+ Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.</li>
+</ul>
+<h3><a name="IO">Input/Output</a></h3>
<ul>
- <li>function_types - Type traits
- for callable, built-in types, from Tobias Schwinger</li>
- <li>fusion -
- Library for working with tuples, including various containers,
- algorithms, etc. From Joel de Guzman, Dan Marsden and Tobias Schwinger.</li>
- <li>mpl - Template metaprogramming
- framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunction classes,
- from Aleksey Gurtovoy.</li>
- <li>proto - Expression template library and compiler
- construction toolkit for domain-specific embedded languages, from Eric Niebler.</li>
- <li>static_assert
- - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
- Maddock.</li>
- <li>type_traits -
- Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
- Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
+ <li>asio - Portable networking and other low-level
+ I/O, including sockets, timers, hostname resolution, socket iostreams, serial
+ ports, file descriptors and Windows HANDLEs, from Chris Kohlhoff.</li>
+ <li>assign - Filling containers
+ with constant or generated data has never been
+ easier, from Thorsten Ottosen.
+ </li>
+ <li>format - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
+ operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
+ <li>io state savers - Save I/O state to
+ prevent jumbled data, from Daryle Walker.</li>
+ <li>iostreams - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li>
+ <li>locale - Provide localization and Unicode
+ handling tools for C++, from Artyom Beilis</li>
+ <li>program_options - Access to configuration
+ data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
+ <li>serialization - Serialization
+of arbitrary data for persistence and marshalling, from Robert Ramey</li>
+
</ul>
-<h3><a name="Preprocessor">Preprocessor</a> Metaprogramming</h3>
+<h3><a name="Inter-language">Inter-language</a> Support</h3>
<ul>
- <li>preprocessor - Preprocessor
- metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion, from Vesa Karvonen
- and Paul Mensonides.</li>
+ <li>python - Reflects C++
+ classes and functions into <a
+ href="http://www.python.org">Python</a>, from Dave
+ Abrahams.</li>
</ul>
-<h3><a name="Concurrent">Concurrent</a> Programming</h3>
+<h3><a name="Iterators">Iterators</a></h3>
<ul>
- <li>asio - Portable networking and other low-level
- I/O, including sockets, timers, hostname resolution, socket iostreams, serial
- ports, file descriptors and Windows HANDLEs, from Chris Kohlhoff.</li>
- <li>interprocess - Shared memory, memory mapped files,
- process-shared mutexes, condition variables, containers and allocators, from Ion Gaztañaga</li>
- <li>MPI - Message Passing Interface library, for use in distributed-memory parallel application programming, from Douglas Gregor and Matthias Troyer.</li>
- <li>thread - Portable C++
- multi-threading, from William Kempf.</li>
+ <li>gil - Generic Image Library, from
+ Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.</li>
+ <li>graph -
+ Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
+ and a University of Notre Dame team; now maintained by Andrew Sutton and Jeremiah Willcock.</li>
+ <li>iterators - Iterator
+ construction framework, adaptors, concepts, and more, from Dave
+ Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and Thomas Witt.</li>
+ <li>operators - Templates
+ ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
+ and Jeremy Siek.</li>
+ <li>tokenizer - Break of a string or other
+ character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3><a name="LanguageFeatureEmulation">Language Features Emulation</a></h3>
+<ul>
+ <li>exception - A library for transporting of arbitrary data in exception objects, and transporting of exceptions between threads (N2179), from Emil Dotchevski.</li>
+ <li>foreach - BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily
+ iterating over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler.</li>
+ <li>move - Portable move semantics for C++03 and C++1 compilers, from Ion Gaztañaga</li>
+ <li><span class="library"><a href=
+ "parameter/doc/html/index.html">parameter</a></span> -
+ Write functions that accept arguments by name, by David Abrahams
+ and Daniel Wallin.</li>
+ <li>scope_exit
+ - Execute arbitrary code at scope exit, from Alexander Nasonov.</li>
+ <li>typeof -
+ Typeof operator emulation, from Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt.</li>
+</ul>
+
+
+<h3><a name="Memory">Memory</a></h3>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>pool - Memory pool management, from
+ Steve Cleary.</li>
+ <li>smart_ptr - Six smart
+ pointer class templates, from Greg Colvin, Beman Dawes,
+ Peter Dimov, and Darin Adler.</li>
+ <li>utility - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
+ plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>
+ <b>prior()</b>
+ function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
</ul>
-<h3><a name="Math">Math</a> and numerics</h3>
+<h3><a name="Math">Math</a> and Numerics</h3>
<ul>
<li>accumulators - Framework for incremental
@@ -590,6 +680,8 @@
<li>operators - Templates
ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
and Jeremy Siek.</li>
+ <li>polygon - Booleans/clipping, resizing/offsetting and more for planar polygons with integral coordinates, from
+ Lucanus Simonson.</li>
<li>random - A complete
system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.</li>
<li>ratio - A compile time ratio arithmetic,
@@ -600,105 +692,51 @@
for dense, packed and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch.</li>
</ul>
-<h3><a name="Correctness">Correctness</a> and testing</h3>
+<h3>Template <a name="Metaprogramming"> Metaprogramming</a></h3>
<ul>
- <li>concept check
- - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
+ <li>function_types - Type traits
+ for callable, built-in types, from Tobias Schwinger</li>
+ <li>fusion -
+ Library for working with tuples, including various containers,
+ algorithms, etc. From Joel de Guzman, Dan Marsden and Tobias Schwinger.</li>
+ <li>mpl - Template metaprogramming
+ framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunction classes,
+ from Aleksey Gurtovoy.</li>
+ <li>proto - Expression template library and compiler
+ construction toolkit for domain-specific embedded languages, from Eric Niebler.</li>
+ <li>ratio - A compile time ratio arithmetic,
+ from Howard Hinnant, Beman Dawes, Vicente J. Botet Escribá.</li>
<li>static_assert
- Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
Maddock.</li>
- <li>test - Support for simple program testing,
- full unit testing, and for program
- execution monitoring, from Gennadiy Rozental.</li>
+ <li>type_traits -
+ Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
+ Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
</ul>
-<h3><a name="Data">Data</a> structures</h3>
+<h3><a name="PatternsIdioms">Patterns and Idioms</a></h3>
<ul>
- <li>any - Safe, generic container for single
- values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney.</li>
- <li>bimap - Bidirectional maps, from Matias Capeletto.
- </li>
- <li>container - Standard library containers and extensions, from Ion Gaztañaga</li>
+ <li>flyweight - Design pattern
+ to manage large quantities of highly redundant objects,
+ from Joaquín M López Muñoz.</li>
+ <li>signals - managed signals &
+ slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor.</li>
+ <li>signals2 - managed signals &
+ slots callback implementation (thread-safe version 2), from Frank Mori Hess.</li>
+ <li>utility <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others.</li>
<li>compressed_pair
- Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
Hinnant, et al.</li>
- <li>fusion -
- Library for working with tuples, including various containers, algorithms, etc.
- From Joel de Guzman and Dan Marsden and Tobias Schwinger.</li>
- <li>icl -
- Interval Container Library, interval sets and maps and aggregation
- of associated values, from Joachim Faulhaber.</li>
- <li>intrusive - Intrusive containers and algorithms, from Ion Gaztañaga</li>
- <li>multi_index - Containers with
- multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaquín M López
- Muñoz.</li>
- <li>optional - Discriminated-union
- wrapper for optional values, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
- <li>pointer container
- - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li>
- <li>property tree - A tree data
- structure especially suited to storing configuration data, from Marcin
- Kalicinski and Sebastian Redl.</li>
- <li>tribool - 3-state boolean type library, from Doug Gregor.</li>
-
- <li>tuple - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more,
- from Jaakko Järvi.</li>
- <li>uuid - A universally unique identifier, from Andy Tompkins.</li>
- <li>variant - Safe, generic, stack-based
- discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h3><a name="Image-processing">Image processing</a></h3>
-<ul>
- <li>gil - Generic Image Library, from
- Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.</li>
</ul>
-<h3><a name="IO">Input/Output</a></h3>
-<ul>
- <li>asio - Portable networking and other low-level
- I/O, including sockets, timers, hostname resolution, socket iostreams, serial
- ports, file descriptors and Windows HANDLEs, from Chris Kohlhoff.</li>
- <li>assign - Filling containers
- with constant or generated data has never been
- easier, from Thorsten Ottosen.
- </li>
-
- <li>format - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
- operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
- <li>io state savers - Save I/O state to
- prevent jumbled data, from Daryle Walker.</li>
- <li>iostreams - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li>
- <li>program_options - Access to configuration
- data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
- <li>serialization - Serialization
-of arbitrary data for persistence and marshalling, from Robert Ramey</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-<h3><a name="Inter-language">Inter-language</a> support</h3>
-
-<ul>
- <li>python - Reflects C++
- classes and functions into <a
- href="http://www.python.org">Python</a>, from Dave
- Abrahams.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h3><a name="Memory">Memory</a></h3>
-
+<h3><a name="StateMachines">State Machines</a></h3>
<ul>
- <li>pool - Memory pool management, from
- Steve Cleary.</li>
- <li>smart_ptr - Six smart
- pointer class templates, from Greg Colvin, Beman Dawes,
- Peter Dimov, and Darin Adler.</li>
- <li>utility - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
- plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>
- <b>prior()</b>
- function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
+ <li>meta state machine - High-performance expressive UML 2.0 finite state machines, from Christophe Henry.</li>
+ <li>statechart - Arbitrarily
+ complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily readable and
+ maintainable C++ code, from Andreas Huber.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Parsing">Parsing</a></h3>
@@ -709,6 +747,14 @@
Guzman, Hartmut Kaiser, Dan Nuffer and team.</li>
</ul>
+<h3><a name="Preprocessor">Preprocessor</a> Metaprogramming</h3>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>preprocessor - Preprocessor
+ metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion, from Vesa Karvonen
+ and Paul Mensonides.</li>
+</ul>
+
<h3><a name="Programming">Programming Interfaces</a></h3>
<ul>
@@ -721,59 +767,60 @@
and Daniel Wallin.</li>
</ul>
-<h3><a name="Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a></h3>
+<h3><a name="String">String</a> and Text Processing</h3>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>conversion/lexical_cast - <tt>lexical_cast</tt>
+ class template, from Kevlin Henney.</li>
+ <li>format - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
+ operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
+ <li>iostreams - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li>
+ <li>locale - Provide localization and Unicode
+ handling tools for C++, from Artyom Beilis</li>
+ <li>regex - Regular expression
+ library, from John Maddock</li>
+ <li>spirit - LL parser framework
+ represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
+ Guzman, Hartmut Kaiser, Dan Nuffer and team.</li>
+ <li>string_algo -
+ String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
+ <li>tokenizer - Break of a string or other
+ character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela</li>
+ <li>wave - Standards conformant implementation of the mandated C99/C++ preprocessor functionality packed behind an easy to use iterator interface, from Hartmut Kaiser.</li>
+ <li>xpressive - Regular expressions that can be written as strings or as expression templates,
+ and that can refer to each other and themselves recursively with the power of context-free grammars, from Eric Niebler.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3><a name="SystemC">System</a></h3>
<ul>
- <li>base-from-member - Idiom to
- initialize a base class with a member, from Daryle Walker.</li>
<li>chrono - Useful time utilities,
from Howard Hinnant, Beman Dawes, Vicente J. Botet Escribá.</li>
- <li>compressed_pair
- - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
- Hinnant, et al.</li>
- <li>conversion - Polymorphic and lexical casts, from Dave Abrahams and
- Kevlin Henney.</li>
- <li>crc - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle
- Walker.</li>
<li>date_time - Date-Time library from Jeff Garland.</li>
- <li>exception - A library for transporting of arbitrary data in exception objects, and transporting of exceptions between threads (N2179), from Emil Dotchevski.</li>
<li>filesystem - Portable paths,
iteration over directories, and other useful filesystem operations, from
Beman Dawes.</li>
- <li>flyweight - Design pattern
- to manage large quantities of highly redundant objects,
- from Joaquín M López Muñoz.</li>
- <li>lexical_cast - General literal text conversions, such as an <code>int</code> represented as
- a <code>string</code>, or vice-versa, from Kevlin Henney.</li>
- <li>meta state machine - High-performance expressive UML 2.0 finite state machines, from Christophe Henry.</li>
- <li>move - Portable move semantics for C++03 and C++1 compilers, from Ion Gaztañaga</li>
+ <li>system - Operating system support,
+ including the diagnostics support that will be part of the C++0x standard
+ library, from Beman Dawes.</li>
+ <li>thread - Portable C++
+ multi-threading, from William Kempf and Anthony Williams.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3><a name="Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a></h3>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>conversion - Polymorphic and lexical casts, from Dave Abrahams and
+ Kevlin Henney.</li>
<li>numeric/conversion - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions,
from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
- <li>optional - Discriminated-union
- wrapper for optional values, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
- <li>program_options - Access to configuration
- data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
- <li>scope_exit
- - Execute arbitrary code at scope exit, from Alexander Nasonov.</li>
- <li>statechart - Arbitrarily
- complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily readable and
- maintainable C++ code, from Andreas Huber.</li>
<li>swap -
Enhanced generic swap function, from Joseph Gauterin.</li>
- <li>system - Operating
- system support, including the diagnostics support that will be part of the
- C++0x standard library, from Beman Dawes.</li>
<li>timer - Event timer,
progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman
Dawes.</li>
<li>TR1 - An implementation of the Technical
Report on C++ Library Extensions, using other Boost libraries as a basis, from John Maddock.</li>
- <li>tribool - 3-state boolean type library, from Doug Gregor.</li>
- <li>typeof -
- Typeof operator emulation, from Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt.</li>
- <li>units -
- Zero-overhead dimensional analysis and unit/quantity
- manipulation and conversion, from Matthias Schabel and Steven Watanabe.</li>
<li>utility - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>
<b>prior()</b>
@@ -782,82 +829,6 @@
from Fernando Cacciola, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.</li>
</ul>
-<h3>Broken compiler <a name="workarounds">workarounds</a></h3>
-
-<ul>
- <li>compatibility - Help for
- non-conforming standard libraries, from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens
- Maurer.</li>
- <li>config - Helps boost
- library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not
- intended for library users.</li>
-</ul>
-
-
-<h3><a name="Domain">Domain Specific</a></h3>
-<ul>
- <li>crc - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle
- Walker.</li>
- <li>units -
- Zero-overhead dimensional analysis and unit/quantity
- manipulation and conversion, from Matthias Schabel and Steven Watanabe.</li>
- <li>uuid - A universally unique identifier, from Andy Tompkins.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h3><a name="Idioms">Idioms</a></h3>
-<ul>
- <li>utility <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others.</li>
- <li>compressed_pair
- - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
- Hinnant, et al.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h3><a name="LanguageFeatureEmulation">Language Features Emulation</a></h3>
-<ul>
- <li>exception - A library for transporting of arbitrary data in exception objects, and transporting of exceptions between threads (N2179), from Emil Dotchevski.</li>
- <li>foreach - BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily
- iterating over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler.</li>
- <li>move - Portable move semantics for C++03 and C++1 compilers, from Ion Gaztañaga</li>
- <li>scope_exit
- - Execute arbitrary code at scope exit, from Alexander Nasonov.</li>
- <li>typeof -
- Typeof operator emulation, from Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h3><a name="Patterns">Patterns</a></h3>
-<ul>
- <li>flyweight - Design pattern
- to manage large quantities of highly redundant objects,
- from Joaquín M López Muñoz.</li>
- <li>signals - managed signals &
- slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor.</li>
- <li>signals2 - managed signals &
- slots callback implementation (thread-safe version 2), from Frank Mori Hess.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h3><a name="StateMachines">State Machines</a></h3>
-<ul>
- <li>meta state machine - High-performance expressive UML 2.0 finite state machines, from Christophe Henry.</li>
- <li>statechart - Arbitrarily
- complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily readable and
- maintainable C++ code, from Andreas Huber.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h3><a name="SystemC">System</a></h3>
-<ul>
- <li>chrono - Useful time utilities,
- from Howard Hinnant, Beman Dawes, Vicente J. Botet Escribá.</li>
- <li>date_time - Date-Time library from Jeff Garland.</li>
- <li>filesystem - Portable paths,
- iteration over directories, and other useful filesystem operations, from
- Beman Dawes.</li>
- <li>system - Operating system support,
- including the diagnostics support that will be part of the C++0x standard
- library, from Beman Dawes.</li>
- <li>thread - Portable C++
- multi-threading, from William Kempf and Anthony Williams.</li>
-</ul>
-
<p>[Category suggestions from Aleksey Gurtovoy, Beman Dawes and Vicente J. Botet Escribá]</p>