Boost.Python v2
[October 11, 2002] Boost.Python v2 is released as part of Boost 1.29.0!
Boost.Python v2 is a complete rewrite which works on many more compilers and platforms, with a completely new interface and lots of new features.
Boost 1.29 is a major release, with five new libraries added and major revisions to several existing libraries:
- Date-Time Library added - Dates, times, leap seconds, infinity, and more, from Jeff Garland.
- Dynamic Bitset added - A runtime sized version of the std::bitset class from Jeremy Siek and Chuck Allison.
- Format Library added - Type-safe 'printf-like' format operations, from Samuel Krempp.
- Function Library: Major syntactic changes have been made. Some old syntax and little-used features have been deprecated (and will be removed shortly), and the syntax for the boost::function class template has been greatly improved on conforming compilers. Please see the compatibility note for more information.
- Multi-array Library added - Multidimensional containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.
- Preprocessor Library: Major upgrade, from Paul Mensonides.
- Python Library - Version 2 is released, from Dave Abrahams and others. Boost.Python v2 requires Python 2.2 or later.
- Signals Library added - Managed signals & slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor.
- Test Library: Major new version, including full unit test capabilities, from Gennadiy Rozental.
- uBLAS Library added - Basic linear algebra for dense, packed and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch.