Fost 4 release 4.10.09.40289 now out

This release is mostly bug fixes, but does include some improvements to the iOS support for iPhone/iPad.

If you want to get started the best place to look is the fost-hello example project.

svn co http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-hello/tags/4.10.09.40289 fost-hello
cd fost-hello
Boost/build
hello/compile
dist/bin/hello-world-d

export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=dist/lib
dist/bin/hello-world-d

svn co http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-hello/tags/4.10.09.40289 fost-hello
cd fost-hello
Boost\build hello\compile
dist\bin\hello-world-gd

The next release is due out on September 21st.

Download locations

Everything is available through our Subversion repository. Below are the locations for the tagged releases for Fost 4.10.09.40289 components.

• fost-aws — Amazon Web Services support — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-aws/tags/4.10.09.40289
• fost-base — Core libraries — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-base/tags/4.10.09.40289
• fost-internet — Internet networking libraries — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-internet/tags/4.10.09.40289
• fost-meta — Everything — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-meta/tags/4.10.09.40289
• fost-orm — Database libraries — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-orm/tags/4.10.09.40289
• fost-postgres — PostgreSQL database libraries — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-postgres/tags/4.10.09.40289
• fost-py — Python language bindings — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-py/tags/4.10.09.40289
• fost-windows — Microsoft Windows specific libraries — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-windows/tags/4.10.09.40289

Detailed change log

• fostlib::url::query_string objects can now be coerced from fostlib::string objects.
• Fixed a bug in coercion when going between nullable types.

• Data handling
  • Started to add in insert for JSON containers
  • Started adding a push_back function that allows consistent pushing back of data across a wide range of types. Currently supports std::list, std::vector and fostlib::json.
• Threading
  • Added accessors to future so that we can see if there is an exception or a if future (result) is available.
• Basic library handling
  • Added fost/relops.hpp and started to use it to remove a lot of duplicated code.
• Logging
  • Added a YAML record class for outputting YAML log records.
• Parsers
  • Removed the parser instances because they're not thread safe.
• Object pointers
  • Implemented more of the pointer dereferencing operators.
• Model initialisation
  • There is now an explicit type for the parameter used to initialise a model instance. This will allow the available information to be extended in a sane manner.