Version 1.31.0
January 26th, 2004 12:00 GMT
Documentation
New License
A unified Boost Software
License has been developed and will gradually replace the individual
licenses for most Boost libraries. The new license offers better legal protection
for both users and developers, and should speed user's legal reviews of Boost
libraries. Dave Abrahams led the Boost effort to develop better licensing.
The legal team was led by Diane
Cabell, Director, Clinical Programs, Berkman
Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School. Devin
Smith, attorney, Nixon
Peabody LLP, wrote the Boost License. Eva Chan, Harvard Law School,
contributed analysis of issues and drafts of various legal documents.
Note: Many of the Boost libraries are still using earlier licenses, though
all conform to the Boost
License Requirements. After this release we will begin an effort to
move toward uniform use of the new license.
Build and Installation
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New Getting Started
procedures ease download and installation, from Rene Rivera and others.
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Improved support for libraries requiring separate
compilation, from John Maddock and others.
New Libraries
- enable_if:
- Selective
inclusion of function template overloads, from Jaakko Jarvi, Jeremiah Willcock,
and Andrew Lumsdaine. This is an important new technique which exploits
the SFINAE (substitution-failure-is-not-an-error) principle.
- Variant Library:
- Safe,
generic, stack-based discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman
and Itay Maman.
Updated Libraries
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Compose: This
library has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Use
Bind or Lambda instead.
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Date
Time Library: A whole host of bug fixes, new features, and documentation
improvements. See the Date Time Change History for details.
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Filesystem
Library:
Several added functions, including improved checking for
directory and file name portability.
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Iterator
Library: Major version upgrade, with interface as proposed for the
C++ library TR, including an improved iterator_adaptor
design plus several new components, from David Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and
Thomas Witt.
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MultiArray: The
multi_array class template now provides an element-preserving
resize operation as well as default construction (see the reference
manual for more information).
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Python Library:
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Support for Python 2.3 and Intel C++ on Linux
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Container Indexing
Suite added.
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injected constructors and wrapped function objects.
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wrapping static data members.
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std::wstring conversions.
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Improved keyword
arguments.
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Better error messages, including name demangling for GCC.
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Simpler build
procedure.
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...and more....
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Random Number
Library: Interface changed to match the C++ TR
proposal, from Jens Maurer.
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Regex: Completely
new matching algorithm is now much faster than before, plus a selection
of new features
and enhancements.
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Boost.Spirit
1.8.0:
- Multiple grammar start rules
- Multiple Scanner rules (no more scanner business woes)
- More dynamic parsers
- Predefined actors
- Numerous bug fixes and QOI stuff
- and more...
Starting from Spirit v1.8.0, ill conforming compilers will no longer be
supported. If you are still using one of these older compilers, please use
Spirit v1.6.x. See [@http://spirit.sf.net Spirit's Site] for more details.
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Test Library:
- Free function template based test case
- Custom exception translators support in execution monitor and
register_exception_translator added for unit test framework
- Added support for multi-module unit tests in automatic
registration facility
- Floating point comparison algorithm reworked (Is not backward
compatible!!!)
- Added support for custom users predicate returning both boolean
result code and possibly error message
- Documentation structure rework and update
For a complete list of changes see the Test Library
release notes.
Miscellaneous
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Expanded testing and fixes for non-conforming compilers.
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