On 1:59 PM, Stefan Teleman wrote:
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 09:43, Jim Bell<Jim@jc-bell.com> wrote:
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From Apache's C++ Standard Library project <http://stdcxx.apache.org/status/2011-02.txt>:
... Several submitted patches, others have offered help with the project build and test infrastructure. Unfortunately, since no committer is available to review patches and guide the contributors through the ASF process to enable them to gain commit privileges there seems to be little hope of reviving stdcxx. ... Wake-up call for the ASF.
I have about 80+ patches for stdcxx (based on 4.2.1) which I wanted to submit to the project and which fix a not insignificant number of important bugs. I was willing to help with the integration of these patches into a new release, and with testing, having already tested Solaris and Linux, since it's my job anyway. Essentially, these patches would make stdcxx equal to the implementation available with the current Sun Studio C++ compilers and Solaris 10 and 11.
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But the ASF process bureaucracy around submitting the simplest patch makes it next-to impossible.
It's really regrettable because stdcxx is a very nice implementation of C++2003.
Quite a shame: contributors seem to have wandered off in frustration. (That happens here, too.) stdcxx is an important project. Beyond being a cross-platform reference implementation with an amicable license, it gives you a complete set of Standard C++ Library documentation you can browse from your local disk -- very valuable.