STLSoft 1.10.1 (beta 15) released

The latest beta of STLSoft 1.10.1 is available, at https://github.com/synesissoftware/STLSoft-1.10/tree/beta-15.

Getting the beta

As usual, there are two ways to obtain the latest beta:

1. Select one of the release archives (.zip, .tar.gz) at https://github.com/synesissoftware/STLSoft-1.10/releases/tag/1.10.1-beta15; or
2. Clone the repo https://github.com/synesissoftware/STLSoft-1.10 and checkout the beta-15 branch (as in "$ git checkout -b beta-10 origin/beta-15").

Changes

The substantive changes are:

• added stlsoft::fast_strftime() and stlsoft::fast_wcsftime() as drop-in replacements for std::strftime() and std::wcsftime();
• added stlsoft::get_ptr() shim overload for std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr
• added stlsoft::get_top() attribute shim, which obtains the front/top element of a non-empty container;
• added stlsoft::basic_string_view<>::substr() method;
• added winstl_C_format_message_strerror_w();
• removed stlsoft::literal_cast<>;
• various portability improvements to newer compilers.

I'll describe these changes in a future blog post.

STLSoft 1.10.1 (beta 12) released

The latest beta of STLSoft 1.10.1 is available, at https://github.com/synesissoftware/STLSoft-1.10/tree/beta-12.

Getting the beta

As usual, there are two ways to obtain the latest beta:

1. Select one of the release archives (.zip, .tar.gz) at https://github.com/synesissoftware/STLSoft-1.10/releases/tag/1.10.1-beta12; or
2. Clone the repo https://github.com/synesissoftware/STLSoft-1.10 and checkout the beta-12 branch (as in "$ git checkout -b beta-10 origin/beta-12").

Changes

The substantive changes are:

• added stlsoft::sas_to_string() (and related - _m and _w form) function templates, which create instances of std::basic_string<> by applying String Access Shims to the given parameter;
• added stlsoft::errno_exception exception class (from the 1.12 branch);
• added stlsoft::locale_scope scoping class;
• STLSoft's struct tm String Access Shims now work for arbitrary locale;
• UNIXSTL's timeval String Access Shims now work for arbitrary locale.

I'll describe these changes in a future blog post.