Peter Dimov wrote:
Or write them at all, for that matter. Is this development documented, tracked or announced somewhere?
This attempt has been started a year ago, but almost nothing happened since then. Recently David Abrahams polled the list for what is going on with the thread_rewrite. Anthony Williams and I committed ourselves to move things forward now. A dedicated mailing list has been set up, which also is hosted at boost. I invite you to subscribe to this list to find out what is going on, The list also is available on gmane. Anthony is focusing on the windows rewrite. I am primarily trying to get the windows tss rewrittten. But before doing this I will manage to set up a better platform separation framework. I think most of the starvation has been due to the single source file approach for the multiple platforms. Other than typical libraries threading has a much stronger dependence on target platform. I hope that this approach will make it much easier to find independent platform maintainers. I already have written a platform dispatch header and currently trying to get something similar for bjam. I will present this when available, and also try to document this on the wiki. Please be patient until this is done. I am open for critics afterwards and would be very glad if there is plenty of them. But I want to avoid that there is excessive discussion taking place while no real work is getting done, as has been for the past few years. I am in no means attempting to take over the boost_thread library but instead just trying to coordinate further development because I think it would be too bad if all this excellent work wouldn't survive. In the meantime please try to focus on the current issues: We urgently need help with fixing the open bugs/ applying patches for 1_34. I have volunteered to act as a "proxy-maintainer" for this too. So if you have time to help I would be very pleased if you contact me. Currently I am searching for someone having access to a 64 bit compiler on the windows platform. Roland