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| Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Joel de Guzman |
| Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Hartmut Kaiser |
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| Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying |
| file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) |
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| [section Acknowledgments] |
| |
| This version of Spirit is a complete rewrite of the /classic/ Spirit many |
| people have been contributing to (see below). But there are a couple of people |
| who already managed to help significantly during this rewrite. We would like to |
| express our special acknowledgement to: |
| |
| [*Eric Niebler] for writing Boost.Proto, without which this rewrite wouldn't |
| have been possible, and helping with examples, advice, and suggestions on |
| how to use Boost.Proto in the best possible way. |
| |
| [*Ben Hanson] for providing us with an early version of his __lexertl__ library, |
| which is proposed to be included into Boost (as Boost.Lexer). At the time |
| of this writing the Boost review for this library is still pending. |
| |
| [*Francois Barel] for his silent but steady work on making and keeping Spirit |
| compatible with all versions of gcc, older and newest ones. He not only |
| contributed subrules to Spirit V2.1, but always keeps an eye on the small |
| details which are so important to make a difference. |
| |
| [*Andreas Haberstroh] for proof reading the documentation and fixing those |
| non-native-speaker-quirks we managed to introduce into the first versions of |
| the documentation. |
| |
| [*Chris Hoeppler] for taking up the editorial tasks for the initial |
| version of this documentation together with Andreas Haberstroh. Chris |
| did a lot especially at the last minute when we are about to release. |
| |
| [*Michael Caisse] also for last minute editing work on the 2.1 release |
| documentation. |
| |
| [*Tobias Schwinger] for proposing expectation points and GCC port of an |
| early version. |
| |
| [*Dave Abrahams] as always, for countless advice and help on C++, |
| library development, interfaces, usability and ease of use, for |
| reviewing the code and providing valuable feedback and for always |
| keeping us on our toes. |
| |
| [*OvermindDL] for his creative ideas on the mailing list helping to resolve |
| even more difficult user problems. |
| |
| [*Carl Barron] for his early adoption and valuable feedback on the Lexer |
| library forcing us to design a proper API covering all of his use cases. |
| He also contributed an early version of the variadic attribute API for |
| Qi. |
| |
| [*Daniel James] for improving and maintaining Quickbook, the tool we use |
| for this documentation. Also, for bits and pieces here and there such |
| documentation suggestions and editorial patches. |
| |
| [*Stephan Menzel] for his early adoption of Qi and Karma and his willingness |
| to invest time to spot bugs which were hard to isolate. Also, for his feedback |
| on the documentation. |
| |
| [*Ray Burkholder] and [*Dainis Polis] for last minute feedback on the |
| documentation. |
| |
| [*Steve Brandt] for his his effort trying to put Qi and Karma to some use while |
| writing a source to source language transformation tool. He made many incredible |
| suggestions helping to improve the usability of both libraries. |
| |
| Special thanks to spirit-devel and spirit-general mailing lists for |
| participating in the discussions, being early adopters of pre-release |
| versions of Spirit2 from the very start and helping out in various tasks |
| such as helping with support, bug tracking, benchmarking and testing, |
| etc. The list include: [*Larry Evans], [*Richard Webb], [*Martin Wille], |
| [*Dan Marsden], [*Cedric Venet], [*Allan Odgaard], [*Matthias |
| Vallentin], [*Justinas V.D.], [*Darid Tromer]. |
| |
| [*Joao Abecasis] for his early support and involvement in Spirit2 |
| development and for disturbing my peace every once in a while for a |
| couple of jokes. |
| |
| The list goes on and on... if you've been mentioned thank Joel and |
| Hartmut, if not, kick Joao :-) |
| |
| [heading Acknowledgements from the Spirit V1 /classic/ Documentation] |
| |
| Special thanks for working on Spirit /classic/ to: |
| |
| [*Dan Nuffer] for his work on lexers, parse trees, ASTs, XML parsers, the |
| multi-pass iterator as well as administering Spirit's site, editing, |
| maintaining the CVS and doing the releases plus a zillion of other chores that |
| were almost taken for granted. |
| |
| [*Hartmut Kaiser] for his work on the C parser, the work on the C/C++ |
| preprocessor, utility parsers, the original port to Intel 5.0, various work on |
| Phoenix, porting to v1.5, the meta-parsers, the grouping-parsers, extensive |
| testing and painstaking attention to details. |
| |
| [*Martin Wille] who improved grammar multi thread safety, contributed the eol_p |
| parser, the dynamic parsers, documentation and for taking an active role in |
| almost every aspect from brainstorming and design to coding. And, as always, |
| helps keep the regression tests for g++ on Linux as green as ever :-). |
| |
| [*Martijn W. Van Der Lee] our Web site administrator and for contributing the |
| RFC821 parser. |
| |
| [*Giovanni Bajo] for last minute tweaks of Spirit 1.8.0 for CodeWarrior 8.3. |
| Actually, I'm ashamed Giovanni was not in this list already. He's done a lot |
| since Spirit 1.5, the first Boost.Spirit release. He's instrumental in the |
| porting of the Spirit iterators stuff to the new Boost Iterators Library |
| (version 2). He also did various bug fixes and wrote some tests here and there. |
| |
| [*Juan Carlos Arevalo-Baeza (JCAB)*] for his work on the C++ parser, the position |
| iterator, ports to v1.5 and keeping the mailing list discussions alive and |
| kicking. |
| |
| [*Vaclav Vesely], lots of stuff, the no\_actions directive, various patches |
| fixes, the distinct parsers, the lazy parser, some phoenix tweaks and add-ons |
| (e.g. new\_). Also, *Stefan Slapeta] and wife for editing Vaclav's distinct |
| parser doc. |
| |
| [*Raghavendra Satish] for doing the original v1.3 port to VC++ and his work on |
| Phoenix. |
| |
| [*Noah Stein] for following up and helping Ragav on the VC++ ports. |
| |
| [*Hakki Dogusan], for his original v1.0 Pascal parser. |
| |
| [*John (EBo) David] for his work on the VM and watching over my shoulder as I |
| code giving the impression of distance eXtreme programming. |
| |
| [*Chris Uzdavinis] for feeding in comments and valuable suggestions as well as |
| editing the documentation. |
| |
| [*Carsten Stoll], for his work on dynamic parsers. |
| |
| [*Andy Elvey] and his conifer parser. |
| |
| [*Bruce Florman], who did the original v1.0 port to VC++. |
| |
| [*Jeff Westfahl] for porting the loop parsers to v1.5 and contributing the file |
| iterator. |
| |
| [*Peter Simons] for the RFC date parser example and tutorial plus helping out |
| with some nitty gritty details. |
| |
| [*Markus Sch'''ö'''pflin] for suggesting the end_p parser and lots of other |
| nifty things and his active presence in the mailing list. |
| |
| [*Doug Gregor] for mentoring and his ability to see things that others don't. |
| |
| [*David Abrahams] for giving Joel a job that allows him to still work on Spirit, |
| plus countless advice and help on C++ and specifically template |
| metaprogramming. |
| |
| [*Aleksey Gurtovoy] for his MPL library from which we stole many metaprogramming |
| tricks especially for less conforming compilers such as Borland and VC6/7. |
| |
| [*Gustavo Guerra] for his last minute review of Spirit and constant feedback, |
| plus patches here and there (e.g. proposing the new dot behavior of the real |
| numerics parsers). |
| |
| [*Nicola Musatti], [*Paul Snively], [*Alisdair Meredith] and [*Hugo Duncan] for |
| testing and sending in various patches. |
| |
| [*Steve Rowe] for his splendid work on the TSTs that will soon be taken into |
| Spirit. |
| |
| [*Jonathan de Halleux] for his work on actors. |
| |
| [*Angus Leeming] for last minute editing work on the 1.8.0 release |
| documentation, his work on Phoenix and his active presence in the Spirit |
| mailing list. |
| |
| [*Joao Abecasis] for his active presence in the Spirit mailing list, providing |
| user support, participating in the discussions and so on. |
| |
| [*Guillaume Melquiond] for a last minute patch to multi_pass for 1.8.1. |
| |
| [*Peder Holt] for his porting work on Phoenix, Fusion and Spirit to VC6. |
| |
| To Joel's wife Mariel who did the graphics in this document. |
| |
| My, there's a lot in this list! And it's a continuing list. We add people to |
| this list every time. We hope we did not forget anyone. If we missed |
| someone you know who has helped in any way, please inform us. |
| |
| Special thanks also to people who gave feedback and valuable comments, |
| particularly members of Boost and Spirit mailing lists. This includes all those |
| who participated in the review: |
| |
| [*John Maddock], our review manager, [*Aleksey Gurtovoy], [*Andre Hentz], |
| [*Beman Dawes], [*Carl Daniel], [*Christopher Currie], [*Dan Gohman], |
| [*Dan Nuffer], [*Daryle Walker], [*David Abrahams], [*David B. Held], |
| [*Dirk Gerrits], [*Douglas Gregor], [*Hartmut Kaiser], [*Iain K.Hanson], |
| [*Juan Carlos Arevalo-Baeza], [*Larry Evans], [*Martin Wille], |
| [*Mattias Flodin], [*Noah Stein], [*Nuno Lucas], [*Peter Dimov], |
| [*Peter Simons], [*Petr Kocmid], [*Ross Smith], [*Scott Kirkwood], |
| [*Steve Cleary], [*Thorsten Ottosen], [*Tom Wenisch], [*Vladimir Prus] |
| |
| Finally thanks to SourceForge for hosting the Spirit project and Boost: a C++ |
| community comprised of extremely talented library authors who participate in |
| the discussion and peer review of well crafted C++ libraries. |
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| [endsect] |