Fost 4 release 4.15.09.44960 now out — 2015-09-29

The detailed logs look pretty short, but that hides a few fairly big improvements and new features.

The builds are now completely C++14 for both Linux and Android. One consequence of this is that the platform versions of the Boost libraries will no longer work and Boost will need to be re-built.

We've started to sketch out the Fost 5 threading library, a set of very basic building blocks for thread safe storage of data. This is now a dependency for fost-base. There is also a new module system and new performance counters.

The beanbags have also gotten a bit smarter. The old implementation used a thread per beanbag to handle concurrency. Although easy to reason about this of course led to a lot of threads. The implementation has been changed to use a mutex instead. There is now a possibility of deadlock that wasn't there before if you try to do too much in a transaction.

Building on Linux

git clone --branch=4.15.09.44960 --recursive git@github.com:KayEss/fost-hello.git
cd fost-hello
Boost/build 58 0
Boost/install 58 0
hello/compile
dist/bin/hello-world-d

Download locations

Applications

beanbag — Stand alone transactional JSON database server — git@github.com:KayEss/beanbag.git
beanbag-seed — Seed project for giving you a starting point to develop web applications using Beanbag — git@github.com:KayEss/beanbag-seed.git
fost-hello — Sample seed project — git@github.com:KayEss/fost-hello.git
mengmon — Stand alone web server — git@github.com:KayEss/mengmom.git

Libraries

f5-threading — Preview of the first Fost 5 library which includes help for threading.
fost-aws — Amazon AWS and OpenStack — git@github.com:KayEss/fost-aws.git
fost-android — Eclipse project for Android that allows Fost 4 and Beanbags to be used on mobile devices — git@github.com:KayEss/fost-android.git
fost-android-ndk — The native code for Android. Includes required parts of Boost configured to use the standard Android build system.
fost-beanbag — Transactional JSON database — git@github.com:KayEss/fost-beanbag.git
fost-base — Build system and core libraries — git@github.com:KayEss/fost-base.git
fost-internet — Internet protocols, servers & clients — git@github.com:KayEss/fost-internet.git
fost-meta — All libraries in one wrapper — git@github.com:KayEss/fost-meta.git
fost-orm — Object/Relational mapping — git@github.com:KayEss/fost-orm.git
fost-postgres — PostgreSQL — git@github.com:KayEss/fost-postgres.git
fost-py — Python (2.x) bindings — git@github.com:KayEss/fost-py.git
fost-web — Web server libraries — git@github.com:KayEss/fost-web.git

Detailed change log

fost-base

Moved the tagged string header.
The performance counter now takes a variadic constructor to build the path that it will be recorded into.
Changed the jcursor constructors to be properly variadic.
Added a mechanism for setting modules that are part of a system. The log messages now make use of this so it's easier to track where log messages come from.
fostlib::push_back now accepts a fostlib::json::array_t.
Deprecate fostlib::counter.

beanbag/fost-beanbag

Improved error reporting when opening a beanbag.
Fixed up tests to remove use of std::auto_ptr.

fost-orm

Cleaned up some old conditional compilation that is no longer relevant.
Use a mutex to serialise access to the beanbag data rather than a separate thread.

mengmom/fost-web

Add MIME type for SVG files.
Remove uses of std::auto_ptr.
Add the ability for the static view to handle DELETE requests when it's configuration includes "verbs": {"DELETE": true}