Fost 4 release 4.12.06.44200 now out — 2012-06-23

The latest version of Fost was tagged in our repositories a few days ago.

This release features the first new library in some time, fost-web. This library contains a number of building blocks to help build web servers in C++ — like the web server that runs this site. This is the first of the libraries that is hosted on GitHub rather than our normal Subversion repository.

Linux & Mac
svn co http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-hello/tags/4.12.06.44200 fost-hello cd fost-hello Boost/build hello/compile dist/bin/hello-world-d On the Mac you will need to set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH before running hello-world-d export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=dist/lib dist/bin/hello-world-d
Windows
svn co http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-hello/tags/4.12.06.44200 fost-hello cd fost-hello Boost\build hello\compile dist\bin\hello-world-gd

Linux & Mac

svn co http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-hello/tags/4.12.06.44200 fost-hello
cd fost-hello
Boost/build
hello/compile
dist/bin/hello-world-d

On the Mac you will need to set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH before running hello-world-d

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

Windows

svn co http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-hello/tags/4.12.06.44200 fost-hello
cd fost-hello
Boost\build
hello\compile
dist\bin\hello-world-gd

Download locations

Everything is available through our Subversion repository. Below are the locations for the tagged releases for Fost 4.12.06.44200 components.

fost-aws — Amazon Web Services support — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-aws/tags/4.12.06.44200
fost-base — Core libraries — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-base/tags/4.12.06.44200
fost-internet — Internet networking libraries — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-internet/tags/4.12.06.44200
fost-meta — Everything — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-meta/tags/4.12.06.44200
fost-orm — Database libraries — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-orm/tags/4.12.06.44200
fost-postgres — PostgreSQL database libraries — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-postgres/tags/4.12.06.44200
fost-py — Python language bindings — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-py/tags/4.12.06.44200
fost-web — Web server URL routing and views — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-web/tags/4.12.06.44200
fost-windows — Microsoft Windows specific libraries — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-windows/tags/4.12.06.44200

Detailed change log

fost-bas

Finally implemented the decode portion of base 64 support.
Implemented a new logging DSL that makes it much simpler to create JSON objects in the log. Look at fost-base/Cpp/fost-core/log-tests.cpp for an example.
Fixed up a problem where the crypto++ library wasn't installing properly on Windows.
Renamed the fostlib::logging namespace to fostlib::log to make it shorter.

fost-internet

Exposed the HTTP server's status codes as text.
Extended the set of allowable characters for the file specification and the query string in the HTTP server to include apostrophes.

fost-meta

Added fost-web to the build targets.

fost-py

Removed the Fost authentication middleware for Django as this is now a separate pypi package.
Silenced a clang warning.