Doug Gregor wrote:
On Monday 19 July 2004 12:00 pm, Michael Glassford wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
Hi Boosters,
I've tried several times to contact Bill Kempf about moving forward with threads, even leaving him messages on his home answering machine. I've had no reply.
That's too bad.
Anyone for a Boost Road Trip? <g>
Does that mean you're volunteering? <g>
Also, I think in a rewrite it would make sense to ditch the MPTasks implementation and assume Mac OS applications will use the pthreads implementation. Unless someone wants to step forward and volunteer to help with that part.
Is the author of the MPTasks implementation (Mac Murrett) unavailable?
Don't know. All I know is that I once asked for someone to compile a fairly simple change I had made or if anyone was even using the MPTasks implementation, and got zero responses. I still don't know for certain if the change even compiles or not. That doesn't look promising if more involved help is required.
It would be a shame to have to duplicate work due to licensing issues, but if it must be done, it makes sense to do it now (well, post-1.32.0, of course). I'd be willing to attempt it.
This is _very_ unfortunate.
That I'm willing to attempt it, or that it might be necessary? To make sure I was perfectly clear, I'd really very much rather not. It would be _much_ more productive to re-use what already exists even if a complete redesign were made. I meant only that I'm willing if it's absolutely necessary. I truly hope it's not. Mike