Ion Gaztañaga <igaztanaga@gmail.com> writes:
What we really need is someone/people to step up to the plate and take responsibility for development, maintenance, and documentation of relevant libraries. We need more than ideas; we need leadership. That isn't to say it has to be done by one person alone, but at least someone needs to rally the energy of Boosters with the interest and expertise to tackle the problems. Maybe you and Paul can do something together?
I'm ready to make a new Shmem snapshot, stop the development of Shmem (well trivial bug-fixes only) and work on Boost Thread's interface. Not that I am an expert in threads, I'm talking just about the interface,
Getting the interface right is the hard part. Become enough of an expert to make informed decisions (with input from the community) about what should be done.
but at least I will start making noise about this. If we have a definitive boost thread interface, I would then adapt Shmem to this interface. Last time I looked, Michael Glassford was mantaining Boost.Thread, and he had good ideas, so he could help a lot here.
Yes. I haven't heard from Michael in a while; you should get in touch with him and see how you can work together. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com