The Beman Project’s mission is to support the efficient design and adoption of the highest quality C++ standard libraries through implementation experience, user feedback, and technical expertise.
We have two principle audiences: Library Developers and the C++ community. We want to allow Library Developers to have a clear path on the road to Standardization. And we want to make it easy for the C++ community to use these libraries to ensure we have real world usage.
This project is organized by our Governance structure.
We welcome all to participate in the Beman project through Discourse discussions or GitHub contributions. Our discourse community is the best way to stay up to date with the most recent developments.
If you are looking for ways to contribute code, see the open issues of bemanproject repositories. The beman repository's issue list, in particular, has implementation requests for various papers. Issues marked with good first issue are perfect for new
contributors and usually have an assigned mentor. Don't hesitate to post on discourse with any questions.
Please refer to our code of conduct and the Beman standard for further information about the community and development guidelines.
Questions? Maybe they have already been answered in our FAQ.
The Beman project is named in memory of Beman Dawes - co-founder of Boost.
$ git clone https://github.com/beman-org/beman.git
$ cd beman
$ cmake -S . -B build
$ cmake --build build
$ ctest --test-dir build
Type: BOOL
Default: OFF
By default, the CMake workflow in this repo will clone and build all constituent libraries from git refs as specified in git_tag fields in libraries.json. If you would instead like to get the latest of each library, provide -DBEMAN_USE_MAIN_BRANCHES=ON when configuring your CMake build. Be aware that BEMAN_USE_MAIN_BRANCHES=ON can result in a less stable user experience as some versions of some libraries may not be published or even fully tested yet.
Libraries are enumerated in libraries.json in this repository. To add a library to The Beman Project, create a pull request adding a new object to the libraries field in that JSON file.
This is an example JSON object representing a Beman Project library:
{
"name": "examplar",
"git_repository": "https://github.com/bemanproject/examplar.git",
"git_tag": "375f3e7",
"default_branch": "main"
}Type: String
A unique, logical name for the library.
Type: String
A URL for cloning the repository containing the library. This URL does not need to be part of the bemanproject GitHub organization, or even on GitHub as long as the repo is publicly accessible for cloning.
Type: String
A git reference (tag, branch, commit, etc.) that contains a known-working version of the provided library. It is recommended to keep this field up-to-date as the library project and its associated paper evolves.
Type: String
The default branch of the library repository, such as main. This will be used in workflows where users want the latest version of every library, regardless of whether the libraries work, either individually or integrated together.