Aims and Objectives This blog is presented in two sections. The first is a general discussion about completion tokens. The second is a practical demonstration of a production-grade completion token which adds significant utility to any asynchronous operation that supports the new cancellation feature that arrived in Asio 1.19 (Boost 1.77). This blog ships with an accompanying github repository in case you want to play with examples. The repository is here. Asio and the Power of Completi...

The Month in Review It’s been a month of minor maintenance fixes, and a fair amount of support requests via the C++ Alliance Slack workspace. Property_tree On the maintenance front, there are a number of historic pull requests in the property_tree repo which need working through. Some of these take some unravelling and a degree of care, as I am still new to this venerable library and I have the impression that it is used fairly ubiquitously in many code bases of varying pedigree. Currentl...

A new responsibility Last month I took over the maintenance of the Boost Property Tree library. This library is in ubiquitous use but has been without a full time maintainer for some time. There was a backlog of commits on develop that had not made it to master for the boost releases. This is changing in upcoming 1.76 release. Property Tree PRs and issues will get more attention going forward. In addition, Property Tree has gained CI courtesy of GitHub Actions. The test status can be seen...

Boost.PropertyTree is back in the saddle! Last month I took over the maintenance of the Boost Property Tree library. This library is in ubiquitous use but has been without a full time maintainer for some time. There was a backlog of commits on develop that had not made it to master for the boost releases. This is changing in upcoming 1.76 release. Property Tree PRs and issues will get more attention going forward. In addition, Property Tree has gained CI courtesy of GitHub Actions. The te...

History This is my first entry on the C++ Alliance web site. I am happy to have been invited to join the organization. I first talked to Vinnie on Slack, and was surprised to find that he is practically a neighbor. So we got in touch, had breakfast together, talked about C++ and life, the universe and everything. We became friends, he took care of our cats when we flew to Europe (pre-Covid), and I brought back some Rakia (next time I’ll bring him some of my father’s home-made stuff!) (Boos...