Hi Edward,
On 3/27/2010 7:20 PM, Niels Dekker - address until 2010-10-10 wrote:
Edward Diener wrote:
I will cite a few where it seems to me that the original developer is nowhere around anymore, but this is just subjective and I might be totally wrong: ... value_init
As far as I know, Fernando Cacciola, the original developer of utility/value_init, is still around. I've been doing some maintenance to value_init as well, reviewed by Fernando. And I'm still busy fixing "Unconditional call to memset in value_initialized()" <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/3869>. Unfortunately I haven't got enough time to finalize the fix this month, sorry! I hope to do so before the end of April.
I am aware that you have taken over some of the work on it from Fernando.
We still need to have a decision about your "Setting value_initialized<T> to a value when T is a top-level const" <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/3472>. You know, I wasn't entirely sure about your proposed fix, so I proposed a slightly different fix. I still hope Fernando can make a choice between the two.
I never heard back from Fernando about this so I assumed he was no longer active as a maintainer of his library.
I guess you can say that, though is not I'm intentionally out of the loop. I just never have the time.
My suggested fix is so simple that it is hard for me to understand why it should take so long for a decision to be made on it unless he was no longer involved.
Actually, your fix is NOT so simple, not conceptually. That's why Niels proposed something else. Anyway a decision needs to be made and if I won't do it on time (for whatever reason), someone else must be given the mantaince rights. Having said that, I'll make a decision in the next few days. Best -- Fernando Cacciola SciSoft Consulting, Founder http://www.scisoft-consulting.com