Code Coverage Reports - designing new GCOVR templates A major effort this quarter and continuing on since it was mentioned in the last newsletter is the development of codecov-like coverage reports that run in GitHub Actions and are hosted on GitHub Pages. Instructions: Code Coverage with Github Actions and Github Pages. The process has really highlighted a phenomenon in open-source software where by publishing something to the whole community, end-users respond back with their own suggestio...

The C++ Alliance is proud to support attendance at WG21 committee meetings. We believe that facilitating the attendance of domain experts produces better outcomes for C++ and for the broader ecosystem, and we are committed to making participation more accessible. We want to be unequivocally clear: the C++ Alliance does not, and will never, direct or compel attendees to vote in any particular way. Our support comes with no strings attached. Those who attend are free and encouraged to exercise...

Corosio Beta: Coroutine-Native Networking for C++20 The C++ Alliance is releasing the Corosio beta, a networking library designed from the ground up for C++20 coroutines. We are inviting serious C++ developers to use it, break it, and tell us what needs to change before it goes to Boost formal review. The Gap C++20 Left Open C++20 gave us coroutines. It did not give us networking to go with them. Boost.Asio has added coroutine support over the years, but its foundations were laid for a w...

Do you know Boost.MySQL? If you’ve been reading my posts, you probably do. Many people have wondered ‘why not Postgres?’. Well, the time is now. TL;DR: I’m writing the equivalent of Boost.MySQL, but for PostgreSQL. You can find the code here. Since libPQ is already a good library, the NativePG project intends to be more ambitious than Boost.MySQL. In addition to the expected Asio interface, I intend to provide a sans-io API that exposes primitives like message serialization. Throughout this...

Doc Previews and Doc Builds The pull request to isomorphic-git “Support git commands run in submodules” was merged, and released in the latest version. (See previous post for an explanation). The commit modified 153 files, all the git api commands, and tests applying to each one. The next step is for upstream Antora to adjust package.json and refer to the newer isomorphic-git so it will be distributed along with Antora. Since isomorphic-git is more widely used than just Antora, their userbas...