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<h1 class="title">Review Wizard Status Report for September 2007</h1>

<div class="section" id="news">
<h1>News</h1>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>August 17, 2007 -- Time Series Accepted.</dt>
<dd>Announcement: <a class="reference external" href="http://lists.boost.org/boost-announce/2007/08/0142.php">http://lists.boost.org/boost-announce/2007/08/0142.php</a></dd>
<dt>July 24, 2007 -- Boost Version 1.34.1 Released.</dt>
<dd>This is a bug fix release addressing many problems with the 1.34.0 release.
Announcement: <a class="reference external" href="http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/query?status=closed&amp;milestone=Boost+1.34.1">http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/query?status=closed&amp;milestone=Boost+1.34.1</a></dd>
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<p>We need experienced review managers.  Please take a look at the list
of libraries in need of managers and check out their descriptions.  In
general review managers are active boost participants or library
contributors.  If you can serve as review manager for any of them,
email Ron Garcia or John Phillips, &quot;garcia at cs dot indiana dot edu&quot;
and &quot;jphillip at capital dot edu&quot; respectively.</p>
<p>A link to this report will be posted to www.boost.org.
If you would like us to make any modifications or additions to this
report before we do that, please email Ron or John.</p>
<p>If you're library author and plan on submitting a library for review
in the next 3-6 months, send Ron or John a short description of your
library and we'll add it to the Libraries Under Construction below.
We know that there are many libraries that are near completion, but we
have hard time keeping track all of them. Please keep us informed
about your progress.</p>
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<div class="section" id="review-queue">
<h1>Review Queue</h1>
<blockquote>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Exception</li>
<li>Finite State Machines</li>
<li>Floating Point Utilities</li>
<li>Switch</li>
<li>Property Map (fast-track)</li>
<li>Graph (fast-track)</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<hr class="docutils" />
<div class="section" id="exception">
<h2>Exception</h2>
<blockquote>
<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">Emil Dotchevski</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Need Volunteer</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.revergestudios.com/boost-exception/boost-exception.zip">http://www.revergestudios.com/boost-exception/boost-exception.zip</a></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">The purpose of this library is to free designers of
exception classes from having to consider what data needs to be
stored in exception objects in order for the catch site to be
able to make sense of what went wrong.</p>
<p class="last">When the exception class is used, arbitrary values can be stored
in any exception. This can be done directly in the
throw-expression, or at a later time as the exception object
propagates up the call stack. The ability to add data to any
exception object after it has been thrown is important, because
often some of the information needed to handle an exception is
unavailable at the time of the throw.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="section" id="finite-state-machines">
<h2>Finite State Machines</h2>
<blockquote>
<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">Andrey Semashev</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Martin Vuille</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://tinyurl.com/yjozfn">Boost Sandbox Vault</a></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">The Boost.FSM library is an implementation of FSM (stands for
Finite State Machine) programming concept. The main goals of the
library are:</p>
<ul class="last simple">
<li>Simplicity. It should be very simple to create state machines using
this library.</li>
<li>Performance. The state machine infrastructure should not be
very time and memory-consuming in order to be applicable in
more use cases.</li>
<li>Extensibility. A developer may want to add more states to an
existing state machine.  A developer should also be able to
specify additional transitions and events for the machine with
minimum modifications to the existing code.</li>
</ul>
</td>
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</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="section" id="floating-point-utilities">
<h2>Floating Point Utilities</h2>
<blockquote>
<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">Johan RĂ‚de</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Need Volunteer</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://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?directory=Math%20-%20Numerics">Boost Sandbox Vault</a></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">The Floating Point Utilities library contains the following:</p>
<ul class="last simple">
<li>Floating point number classification functions: fpclassify, isfinite,
isinf, isnan, isnormal (Follows TR1)</li>
<li>Sign bit functions: signbit, copysign, changesign (Follows TR1)</li>
<li>Facets that format and parse infinity and NaN according to the C99
standard. (These can be used for portable handling of infinity and NaN
in text streams.)</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="section" id="switch">
<h2>Switch</h2>
<blockquote>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Steven Watanabe</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body">Need Volunteer</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Download:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference external" href="http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&amp;filename=mcs_units_v0.7.1.zip&amp;directory=Units">Boost Sandbox Vault</a></td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">The built in C/C++ switch statement is very efficient. Unfortunately,
unlike a chained if/else construct there is no easy way to use it when
the number of cases depends on a template parameter. The Switch library
addresses this issue.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
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</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="section" id="property-map-fast-track">
<h2>Property Map (fast-track)</h2>
<blockquote>
<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Andrew Sutton</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Jeremy Siek</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://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/graph-v2">http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/graph-v2</a></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">A number of additions and modifications to the Property Map Library,
including:</p>
<blockquote class="last">
<ul class="simple">
<li>A constant-valued property map, useful for naturally unweighted
graphs.</li>
<li>A noop-writing property map, useful when you have to provide an
argument, but just don't care about the output.</li>
<li>See
<a class="reference external" href="http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/browser/sandbox/graph-v2/libs/property_map/ChangeLog">ChangeLog</a>
for details.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
</td>
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</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="section" id="graph-fast-track">
<h2>Graph (fast-track)</h2>
<blockquote>
<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
<col class="field-name" />
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<tbody valign="top">
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Andrew Sutton</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Review Manager:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Jeremy Siek</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://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/graph-v2">http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/graph-v2</a></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">A number of additions and modifications to the Graph Library,
including:</p>
<ul class="last simple">
<li>Two new graph classes (undirected and directed) which are intended
to make the library more approachable for new developers</li>
<li>A suite of graph measures including degree and closeness
centrality, mean geodesic distance, eccentricity, and clustering
coefficients.</li>
<li>An algorithm for visiting all cycles in a directed graph (Tiernan's
from 1970ish). It works for undirected graphs too, but reports cycles
twice (one for each direction).</li>
<li>An algorithm for visiting all the cliques a graph (Bron&amp;Kerbosch).
Works for both directed and undirected.</li>
<li>Derived graph measures radius and diameter (from eccentricity) and
girth and circumference (from Tiernan), and clique number (from
Bron&amp;Kerbosch).</li>
<li>An exterior_property class that helps hides some of the weirdness
with exterior properties.</li>
<li>runtime and compile-time tests for the new algorithms.</li>
<li>a substantial amount of documentation</li>
<li>Graph cores, implemented by David Gleich (&#64;Stanford University)</li>
<li>Deterministic graph generators - capable of creating or inducing
specific types of graphs over a vertex set (e.g., star graph, wheel
graph, prism graph, etc). There are several other specific types that
could be added to this, but I haven't had the time just yet.</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</blockquote>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="libraries-under-development">
<h1>Libraries under development</h1>
<div class="section" id="dataflow">
<h2>Dataflow</h2>
<blockquote>
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<col class="field-name" />
<col class="field-body" />
<tbody valign="top">
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Stjepan Rajko</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body">The Dataflow library provides generic support for data
producers, consumers, and connections between the two.  It also
provides layers for several specific dataflow mechanisms, namely
Boost.Signals, VTK data/display pipelines, and plain
pointers. The Dataflow library came out of the Signal Network
GSoC project, mentored by Doug Gregor.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Status:</th><td class="field-body">I am polishing the Dataflow library for submission, and am expecting
to add it to the review queue in the next couple of months.
I am currently ironing out some faults in the design of the library,
filling in missing features, and testing it on / adapting it to
different dataflow mechanisms (currently VTK and soon
Boost.Iostreams).  As soon as I'm pretty sure that things are going
the right way, I'll submit this to the review queue while I do the
finishing touches.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="section" id="constrained-value">
<h2>Constrained Value</h2>
<blockquote>
<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">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</a></p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://rk.go.pl/r/constrained_value">http://rk.go.pl/r/constrained_value</a> (Documentation)</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">The Constrained Value library contains class templates
useful for creating constrained objects. The simplest example
of a constrained object is hour. The only valid values for an hour
within a day are integers from the range [0, 23]. With this library,
you can create a variable which behaves exactly like int, but does
not allow for assignment of values which do not belong to the
allowed range. The library doesn't focus only on constrained
objects that hold a value belonging to a specified range (i.e.,
bounded objects). Virtually any constraint can be imposed using
appropriate predicate. You can specify what happens in case of
assignment of an invalid value, e.g. an exception may be thrown or
the value may be adjusted to meet the constraint criterions.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Status:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first last">I'm planning to finish it in 1-2 months.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
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</blockquote>
<p>Please let us know of any libraries you are currently
developing that you intend to submit for review.</p>
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