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“...one of the most highly regarded and -expertly designed C++ library projects in the world.” — Herb Sutter and Andrei Alexandrescu, -C++ Coding -Standards

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Welcome to Boost.org!

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Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries.

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We emphasize libraries that work well with the C++ Standard Library. - Boost libraries are intended to be widely useful, and usable across a - broad spectrum of applications. The Boost - license encourages both commercial and non-commercial use.

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We aim to establish "existing practice" and provide reference - implementations so that Boost libraries are suitable for eventual - standardization. Ten Boost libraries are already included in the C++ Standards - Committee's Library Technical Report ( TR1) - as a step toward becoming part of a future C++ Standard. More Boost - libraries are proposed for the upcoming TR2.

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Getting started: Boost works on almost any modern operating system, - including UNIX and Windows variants. Follow the Getting Started Guide to download and - install Boost. Popular Linux and Unix distributions such as Fedora, Debian, and NetBSD include pre-built Boost packages. - Boost may also already be available on your organization's internal web - server.

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Background: The Background Information - page has introductory material to help those educating their - organization about Boost.

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Although Boost was begun by members of the C++ Standards Committee - Library Working Group, participation has expanded to include thousands of - programmers from the C++ community at large.

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If you are interested in participating in Boost, please join our main - developers mailing list. - Discussions are highly technical, and list members are encouraged to - participate in formal reviews of proposed libraries. There is also a users mailing list, and several project specific lists.

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May 14, 2007 - BoostCon'07 starts today

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The long anticipated BoostCon'07 finally starts today. Promising to be the - main face-to-face event for all things Boost, BoostCon'07 opens the door to - your C++ future.

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May 12, 2007 - Version 1.34.0

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  • Foreach - Library: BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily iterating - over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler. -
  • Statechart Library: - Arbitrarily complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily - readable and maintainable C++ code, from Andreas Huber. -
  • TR1 - Library: An implementation of the C++ Technical Report on - Standard Library Extensions, from John Maddock. This library does not - itself implement the TR1 components, rather it's a thin wrapper that - will include your standard library's TR1 implementation (if it has one), - otherwise it will include the Boost Library equivalents, and import them - into namespace std::tr1. Highlights include: Reference - Wrappers, Smart Pointers, result_of, Function Object Binders, - Polymorphic function wrappers, Type Traits, Random Number Generators and - Distributions, Tuples, Fixed Size Array, Hash Function Objects, Regular - Expressions, and Complex Number Additional Algorithms. -
  • Typeof - Library: Typeof operator emulation, from Arkadiy Vertleyb and - Peder Holt. -
  • Xpressive - Library: 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.
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    • Simplification - of the path interface by eliminating special constructors to identify - native formats. -
    • Rationalization - of predicate function design, including the addition of several new - functions. -
    • Clearer specification by reference to POSIX, the ISO/IEEE - Single Unix Standard, with provisions for Windows and other operating - systems. -
    • Preservation of - existing user code whenever possible. -
    • More - efficient directory iteration. -
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    • Add support for the BOOST_HASH_NO_EXTENSIONS macro, which - disables the extensions to TR1 -
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    • Relational operators now directly support arguments of type - 'T' and 'none_t' -
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    • Helper functions make_optional(val), make_optional(cond,val) - and get_optional_value_or(opt,alternative_value) added. -
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    • Support for unnamed arguments (those whose keyword is deduced from - their types) is added. -
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    • Exceptions can be disabled by defining the macro - BOOST_PTR_CONTAINER_NO_EXCEPTIONS before including any header. This - macro is defined by default if BOOST_NO_EXCEPTIONS is defined. -
    • Additional std::auto_ptr<T> overloads added - s.t. one can also pass std::auto_ptr<T> instead of - only T* arguments to member functions. -
    • transfer() now has weaker requirements s.t. one can - transfer objects from ptr_container<Derived> to - ptr_container<Base>,
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    • stl_input_iterator, - for turning a Python iterable object into an STL input iterator, from - Eric Niebler. -
    • Support for void* conversions is added. -
    • Integrated support for wrapping C++ functions built with the - parameter library; keyword names are automatically known to - docsstrings. -
    • Enhancements to the API for better embedding support - (boost::python::import(), - boost::python::exec(), and - boost::python::exec_file()).
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    • Several new preprocessing hooks have been added. For a complete - description please refer to the related documentation page: The Context - Policy. -
    • Shared library (dll) support has been added for the generated Wave - libraries. -
    • The overall error handling has been improved. It is now possible - to recover and continue after an error or a warning was issued. -
    • Support for optional comment and/or full whitespace preservation - in the generated output stream has been added. -
    • The Wave library now performs automatic include guard detection to - avoid accessing header files more than once, if appropriate. -
    • Full interactive mode has been added to the Wave tool. Now the - Wave tool can be used just like Python or Perl for instance to - interactively try out your BOOST_PP macros. Additionally it is now - possible to load and save the current state of an interactive session - (macro tables et.al.). -
    • The overall performance has been improved by upto 40-60%, - depending on the concrete files to process. -
    • Support for new pragmas has been added allowing to control certain - library features from inside the preprocessed sources (partial output - redirection, control of generated whitespace and #line directives). -
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    • This version also includes a number of bug fixes and usage - improvements. For a complete list of changes, see the libraries change log.
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Boost is tested on a wide range of compilers and platforms. Since Boost - libraries rely on modern C++ features not available in all compilers, not - all Boost libraries will work with every compiler. The following compilers - and platforms have been extensively tested with Boost, although many other - compilers and platforms will work as well. For more information, see the - regression test - results.

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  • Microsoft Visual - C++ 6.0 (sp5, with and without STLport), 7.0, 7.1, 8.0. Note: Boost - does not support the non-standard "Safe" C++ Library shipping with - Visual C++ 8.0, which may result in many spurious warnings from Boost - headers and other standards-conforming C++ code. To suppress these - warnings, define the macro _SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE. -
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Acknowledgements

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Thomas Witt managed this - release.

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A great number of people contributed their time and expertise to make - this release possible. Special thanks go to Vladimir Prus for making - Boost.Build version 2 a reality, David Abrahams for authoring a new - Getting Started guide, Rene Rivera for general build and installation - support and Greg D. for answering countless - questions.

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