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Andrey Semashev | 11 Oct 12:20

[date_time] Library status?

The Boost.DateTime library is very useful, and it is unfortunate to
admit that according to Trac report and personal experience, its current
state is anything but good. There are long standing tickets, some of
them are trivial to fix and have patches already attached. The most
annoying ones are missing includes and name clashes (tickets 642, 1740,
1615, 2083, 2091 to name some of them). Is this library still maintained?
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Alp Mestan | 11 Oct 16:02

Re: [date_time] Library status?

I don't know, but I think nobody will complain if you work on bug fixing of
Boost.DT... and then asking I you can submit it for a library update (of
course I you are interested in working on it and if you have the time).

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev <at> gmail.com
> wrote:

> The Boost.DateTime library is very useful, and it is unfortunate to
> admit that according to Trac report and personal experience, its current
> state is anything but good. There are long standing tickets, some of
> them are trivial to fix and have patches already attached. The most
> annoying ones are missing includes and name clashes (tickets 642, 1740,
> 1615, 2083, 2091 to name some of them). Is this library still maintained?
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Andrey Semashev | 11 Oct 17:56

Re: [date_time] Library status?

Alp Mestan wrote:
> I don't know, but I think nobody will complain if you work on bug fixing of
> Boost.DT... and then asking I you can submit it for a library update (of
> course I you are interested in working on it and if you have the time).

I'd be glad to fix some of those issues, at least the most annoying and
obvious ones. However, if there is some work going on the library, I
would like to know about it in order not to clash with the maintainer.
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Alp Mestan | 12 Oct 00:31

Re: [date_time] Library status?

My SVN client tells that the last commit was 10/10/2008, yesterday, by John
Maddock.
I think you should mail him to get news and maybe for being able to fix some
bugs.

On 10/11/08, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Alp Mestan wrote:
> > I don't know, but I think nobody will complain if you work on bug fixing
> of
> > Boost.DT... and then asking I you can submit it for a library update (of
> > course I you are interested in working on it and if you have the time).
>
>
> I'd be glad to fix some of those issues, at least the most annoying and
> obvious ones. However, if there is some work going on the library, I
> would like to know about it in order not to clash with the maintainer.
>
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Ruediger Berlich | 13 Oct 16:45

Re: [date_time] Library status?

@Andrey: Did you get a response on your question via PM ? 

It would be really great if the problems you mentioned were fixed in 1.37 .
They had already been reported before the 1.36 beta. And usage of date_time
on machines with a gcc 4.3.1 compiler (and possibly any other 4.3 release)
seems to require patching of the Boost sources. This applies at least to
Debian Lenny and OpenSUSE 11, but quite likely also to other mainstream
Linux distributions, such as recent Fedoras.

Best Regards,
Ruediger

Alp Mestan wrote:

> My SVN client tells that the last commit was 10/10/2008, yesterday, by
> John Maddock.
> I think you should mail him to get news and maybe for being able to fix
> some bugs.
> 
> On 10/11/08, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Alp Mestan wrote:
>> > I don't know, but I think nobody will complain if you work on bug
>> > fixing
>> of
>> > Boost.DT... and then asking I you can submit it for a library update
>> > (of course I you are interested in working on it and if you have the
>> > time).
>>
>>
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Andrey Semashev | 13 Oct 20:13

Re: [date_time] Library status?

Ruediger Berlich wrote:
> @Andrey: Did you get a response on your question via PM ? 

No, I didn't.

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Beman Dawes | 13 Oct 21:40
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On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Andrey Semashev
<andrey.semashev <at> gmail.com>wrote:

> The Boost.DateTime library is very useful, and it is unfortunate to
> admit that according to Trac report and personal experience, its current
> state is anything but good. There are long standing tickets, some of
> them are trivial to fix and have patches already attached. The most
> annoying ones are missing includes and name clashes (tickets 642, 1740,
> 1615, 2083, 2091 to name some of them). Is this library still maintained?

I've forwarded the above to Jeff Garland. If he doesn't respond we will
authorize someone else to apply at least the trivial fixes.

--Beman
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Andrey Semashev | 13 Oct 21:49

Re: [date_time] Library status?

Beman Dawes wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Andrey Semashev
> <andrey.semashev <at> gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> The Boost.DateTime library is very useful, and it is unfortunate to
>> admit that according to Trac report and personal experience, its current
>> state is anything but good. There are long standing tickets, some of
>> them are trivial to fix and have patches already attached. The most
>> annoying ones are missing includes and name clashes (tickets 642, 1740,
>> 1615, 2083, 2091 to name some of them). Is this library still maintained?
> 
> 
> I've forwarded the above to Jeff Garland. If he doesn't respond we will
> authorize someone else to apply at least the trivial fixes.

Thanks, Beman.
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Jeff Garland | 14 Oct 17:10

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Andrey Semashev wrote:
> Beman Dawes wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Andrey Semashev
>> <andrey.semashev <at> gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> The Boost.DateTime library is very useful, and it is unfortunate to
>>> admit that according to Trac report and personal experience, its current
>>> state is anything but good. There are long standing tickets, some of
>>> them are trivial to fix and have patches already attached. The most
>>> annoying ones are missing includes and name clashes (tickets 642, 1740,
>>> 1615, 2083, 2091 to name some of them). Is this library still maintained?
>>
>> I've forwarded the above to Jeff Garland. If he doesn't respond we will
>> authorize someone else to apply at least the trivial fixes.

My apologies -- the last 6th months have seen the time I have to devote to 
Boost essentially evaporate...I really haven't even been able to watch the 
mailing list or do any date-time maintenance.  I'm certainly still planning to 
continue supporting the library, but I don't want to hold up critical fixes 
just because I'm short on time right now.  If someone wants to take the lead 
on applying a few of these fixes please just email me directly -- I can find 
30-60 minutes to scan the changes and make sure they will be compatible going 
forward.

Jeff
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Beman Dawes | 16 Oct 20:42
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On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Jeff Garland <
jeff <at> crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote:

> Andrey Semashev wrote:
>
>> Beman Dawes wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Andrey Semashev
>>> <andrey.semashev <at> gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>  The Boost.DateTime library is very useful, and it is unfortunate to
>>>> admit that according to Trac report and personal experience, its current
>>>> state is anything but good. There are long standing tickets, some of
>>>> them are trivial to fix and have patches already attached. The most
>>>> annoying ones are missing includes and name clashes (tickets 642, 1740,
>>>> 1615, 2083, 2091 to name some of them). Is this library still
>>>> maintained?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I've forwarded the above to Jeff Garland. If he doesn't respond we will
>>> authorize someone else to apply at least the trivial fixes.
>>>
>>
> My apologies -- the last 6th months have seen the time I have to devote to
> Boost essentially evaporate...I really haven't even been able to watch the
> mailing list or do any date-time maintenance.  I'm certainly still planning
> to continue supporting the library, but I don't want to hold up critical
> fixes just because I'm short on time right now.  If someone wants to take
> the lead on applying a few of these fixes please just email me directly -- I
> can find 30-60 minutes to scan the changes and make sure they will be
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Andrey Semashev | 17 Oct 17:31

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Beman Dawes wrote:

> Has anyone taken the lead to get these changes into date-time? If someone
> will get patches ready, and have them approved by Jeff, I'll be happy to
> apply them. Just include me in the email exchange with Jeff.

I've contacted with Jeff. I'll try to prepare several patches this
weekend and send them to Jeff for approval.
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