Here’s an overview of some projects I have been working on the last few months. Boost Downloads Set up an AWS Cloudfront CDN at archives.boost.io to host the Boost releases during an outage. JFrog is planning to cancel the account, and the outage was an unintentional (or intentional) warning. Extensive experimentation using a Fastly CDN in conjunction with JFrog, however they are sending S3 redirects which prevent this configuration. Installed another origin server and a load balancer. Debu...

In the fourth quarter of 2023 the functionality for direct parsing in JSON was finalised and the code was merged into the mainline and then released in Boost 1.84.0. Thus, I’ve moved to the natural opposite of direct parsing: direct serialisation. Boost.JSON’s serialisation is less customisable then parsing, since the demand for custom serialisation is significantly lower. As a result, the design of the serialiser is quite different from that of the parser, and hence a different approach had ...

Much like the last, my primary focus this quarter was on MrDocs, with some additional work done on Boost.StaticString and clang. MrDocs The last significant feature MrDocs needed in order to produce documentation on par with Docca was the ability to render overload set. At a glance this may appear trivial, but MrDocs was designed to render documentation on a per-declaration basis: each declaration would result in a single documentation section being emitted by a generator. This is problemat...

Summary MrDocs Handlebars Boost Libraries Boost Release Tools Boost Website C++ Github Actions MrDocs Over the last quarter, we continued to work intensely on MrDocs, a documentation generator for C++ projects. I’ve been overseeing and reviewing all the work done by the other contributors in the project. Besides the work done by Krystian, Fernando also joined the project as a contributor. We’ve been working on making the project at least as competitive as Doxygen + Docca, so...

Wrote a section on the Super-project, based on some legacy Wiki pages that needed considerable updating, and the boostdep tool steps as this covered installing the necessary components. Covered four main topics: the Super-project layout, Getting Started, Library Maintenance and Library Workflow. Wrote a Best-Practices section on Beneficial Dependencies - the dependencies used by the most libraries of Boost. These include Boost.Config, Boost.Core, Boost.Assert, Boost.StaticAs...