Forwarding a question that someone asked in a trac bug, "Will PropertyTree? make it into Boost 1.39.0???": https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1989 I guess this has to be asked at least once a year. ;-) http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/171719/
From this thread it appears that the original author, Marcin, may no longer be available to maintain this library. Was this ever confirmed? However, a year ago Sebastian mentioned that he would be willing to support the library. I don't know if this offer is still good, but it seems that we should figure out what we're doing with this library.
There was a list of items in the following thread about what Marcin felt should be done before the release: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/171825/ In that thread Marcin wrote: """ IMO the issues that should be addressed before release are: - Simplification by removing some of the template arguments (arguable - maybe someone is using that?) - Figure out which parsers are unneccessary and get rid of them (cmdline parser?) - Get some docs toolchain to work properly and provide up-to-date docs. Lots of the text can be ported over (and my monkey english corrected from the original docs. - Speedup through use of a custom container (to replace std::list, needs some profiling work if it's even worth it) """ I believe that some of the parsers were already removed from svn. In the first link I posted (the trac ticket) were some patches I gave a long time back for the docs in quickbook form + doxygen. However, these were just meant to be a start based upon the original documentation (with a few English grammar corrections) and aren't really release-ready quite yet. (I'd have to see about getting the doc toolchain setup again myself, which I don't remember working so well on Windows, though Linux didn't give me any major problems.) On top of this list, at this point I think there would may be a few patches to review and apply from Trac. Do we have a committed maintainer? Can we make any plan of action for making this library release-ready or are we giving up on it? -Ryan
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 07:43:16 +0000 (UTC), Ryan Gallagher <ryan.gallagher@gmail.com> wrote:
Forwarding a question that someone asked in a trac bug, "Will PropertyTree? make it into Boost 1.39.0???":
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1989
I guess this has to be asked at least once a year. ;-)
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/171719/
From this thread it appears that the original author, Marcin, may no longer be available to maintain this library. Was this ever confirmed? However, a year ago Sebastian mentioned that he would be willing to support the library. I don't know if this offer is still good, but it seems that we should figure out what we're doing with this library.
The offer is still good. Sebastian
(corrected a typo in the subject -- "or" -> "of".) Sebastian Redl <sebastian.redl <at> getdesigned.at> writes:
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 07:43:16 +0000 (UTC), Ryan Gallagher <ryan.gallagher <at> gmail.com> wrote:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/171719/
From this thread it appears that the original author, Marcin, may no longer be available to maintain this library. Was this ever confirmed? However, a year ago Sebastian mentioned that he would be willing to support the library. I don't know if this offer is still good, but it seems that we should figure out what we're doing with this library.
The offer is still good.
That's great to hear! Were you ever able to get in touch with Marcin to better understand his status and thoughts? I believe that Dave gave an email address for him in that thread. What are your thoughts on how best to proceed? -Ryan
Ryan Gallagher wrote:
(corrected a typo in the subject -- "or" -> "of".)
Sebastian Redl <sebastian.redl <at> getdesigned.at> writes:
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 07:43:16 +0000 (UTC), Ryan Gallagher <ryan.gallagher <at> gmail.com> wrote:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/171719/
From this thread it appears that the original author, Marcin, may
no longer be available to maintain this library. Was this ever confirmed? However, a year ago Sebastian mentioned that he would be willing to support the library. I don't know if this offer is still good, but it seems that we should figure out what we're doing with this library.
The offer is still good.
That's great to hear!
Were you ever able to get in touch with Marcin to better understand his status and thoughts? I believe that Dave gave an email address for him in that thread.
Marcin answered the day after that thread on the boost list, with this new thread: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/171825/ But I haven't heard anything since then.
What are your thoughts on how best to proceed?
I should probably contact him again. Sebastian
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