• Cláudio Albuquerque (8/8) Oct 10 2007 Hi Mathew,
• Matthew Wilson (8/13) Oct 15 2007 the
• Bart van der Velden (6/26) Oct 17 2007 Hey, FastFormat at last. I can probably pick up a little task if you
• Matthew Wilson (34/37) Oct 22 2007 Definitely will be able to handle some help.
• Cláudio Albuquerque (3/19) Oct 20 2007 Sure, count me in...
• Matthew Wilson (3/5) Oct 20 2007 Cláudio, for this, and other, reasons, I'd like to get hold of your emai...
• Matthew Wilson (8/16) Dec 16 2007 Am hoping to get the docs sorted in 1.9.13, later this week.

"Cláudio Albuquerque" <cláudio nowhere.com> writes:

Hi Mathew,

I'm just wondering if you could provide some sort of downloadable zip file 
with htmls of beta documentation?
By the way could you share your thoughts on when are you planning to release 
FastFormat Lib? I really anxious on this one so I can get my self rid of the 
CString addiction.

Regards
Cláudio Albuquerque

"Matthew Wilson" <matthew hat.stlsoft.dot.org> writes:

 I'm just wondering if you could provide some sort of downloadable zip file
 with htmls of beta documentation?

Will try and do so soon-ish.

 By the way could you share your thoughts on when are you planning to

release
 FastFormat Lib? I really anxious on this one so I can get my self rid of

the
 CString addiction.

This'll be my top priority as soon as I've got the first batch of content of
"Breaking Up The Monolith" out to review, which is hopefully at the end of
the week. :-)

I'll be looking for help with FF, esp. in packaging and documentation and
tutorials, etc. ... ;-)

Bart van der Velden <bartvelden gmail.com> writes:

Matthew Wilson wrote:
 I'm just wondering if you could provide some sort of downloadable zip file
 with htmls of beta documentation?

 
 Will try and do so soon-ish.
 
 By the way could you share your thoughts on when are you planning to

 release
 FastFormat Lib? I really anxious on this one so I can get my self rid of

 the
 CString addiction.

 
 This'll be my top priority as soon as I've got the first batch of content of
 "Breaking Up The Monolith" out to review, which is hopefully at the end of
 the week. :-)
 
 I'll be looking for help with FF, esp. in packaging and documentation and
 tutorials, etc. ... ;-)
 
 
 

Hey, FastFormat at last. I can probably pick up a little task if you 
have one. Can't wait to get my hands on it. (Oh well, apparently I *can* 
  wait ;-) )

Kind regards,
Bart

Matthew Wilson <no-one nowhere.none> writes:

 Hey, FastFormat at last. I can probably pick up a little task if you 
 have one. Can't wait to get my hands on it. (Oh well, apparently I *can* 
   wait ;-) )

Definitely will be able to handle some help.

Current chronological impediments are:
 * get "Breaking Up The Monolith" to proposal / 1st-review stage. Hopefully
before the end of the month
 * get Pantheios to non-beta release stage. Hopefully also before the end of
the month, or maybe slipping a little into early Nov

Other than those two, FastFormat's the top priority.

The current status is that it can support code such as:

namespace ff = ::fastformat;

char const* s = . . .
int i = . . .
double d = . . .
struct tm* t = . . .
std::string str1 = . . .
stlsoft::simple_string str2 = . . .
stlsoft::string_view str3 = . . .

std::string result;

// format into a string
ff::fmt(result, "s={0}, i={1}, d={2}, t={3}, str1={4}, str2={5}, str3={6}", s,
ff::integer(i), ff::real(d), t, str1, str2, str3);

// format into std::ostream
ff::fmt_ln(std::cout, "str3={2}, str2={1}, str1={0}", str1, str2, str3); //
Note the param/argument orders

// format into FILE*
FILE* stm = stdout;
ff::fmt(stm, "s={0}, t={3}", s, NULL, NULL, t);

// Using resource bundles (for I18N/L12N)
ff::properties_bundle bundle("./en/fmt_strings.properties")

. . .

ff::fmt(std::cout, bundle["three_strings_fmt"], str1, str2, str3);


There are two current major problems:
 - the need to use inserter classes ff::integer and ff::real for integers and
floating-point fundamental types
 - the need to use a variable to hold the FILE* stream; the compiler has a cow
if you just pass stdout straight to the fmt() method.

The first problem's already solved. The impediment here is that I've got to
adjust the code generators with the solution. (I also want to write an article
about this, to go along with Monolith, which features FastFormat and Pantheios
quite significantly.)

The second problem is not solved at all, and remains an important task to
complete before any public-facing alpha release can be made. I do, however,
know why it's doing it.

Maybe the best approach is to involve a small group of people (you, 	Cláudio,
and another friend who's been nagging me about FastFormat for over a year) with
a non-public pre-alpha release, to resolve the remaining few design niggles,
followed quickly (<2 weeks) with going live on SF. Sound sensible?

Cheers

Matt

"Cláudio Albuquerque" <cláudio nowhere.com> writes:

Sure, count me in...

"Matthew Wilson" <matthew hat.stlsoft.dot.org> wrote in message 
news:ff0gr6$n2l$1 digitalmars.com...
 I'm just wondering if you could provide some sort of downloadable zip 
 file
 with htmls of beta documentation?

 Will try and do so soon-ish.

 By the way could you share your thoughts on when are you planning to

 release
 FastFormat Lib? I really anxious on this one so I can get my self rid of

 the
 CString addiction.

 This'll be my top priority as soon as I've got the first batch of content 
 of
 "Breaking Up The Monolith" out to review, which is hopefully at the end of
 the week. :-)

 I'll be looking for help with FF, esp. in packaging and documentation and
 tutorials, etc. ... ;-)


 

Matthew Wilson <no-one nowhere.none> writes:

Cláudio Albuquerque <cláudio nowhere.com> Wrote:

 
 Sure, count me in...

Cláudio, for this, and other, reasons, I'd like to get hold of your email. Can
you drop me a line, via http://extendedstl.com?

Thanks

"Matthew Wilson" <matthew hat.stlsoft.dot.org> writes:

Am hoping to get the docs sorted in 1.9.13, later this week.

As for FF, well, that's going to be coming out either at the end of this
month, or in early Jan 08. Am very excited about this project.

:-)

"Cláudio Albuquerque" <cláudio nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:feiqlp$2jgf$1 digitalmars.com...
 Hi Mathew,

 I'm just wondering if you could provide some sort of downloadable zip file
 with htmls of beta documentation?
 By the way could you share your thoughts on when are you planning to

release
 FastFormat Lib? I really anxious on this one so I can get my self rid of

the
 CString addiction.

 Regards
 Cláudio Albuquerque