Hi, After all the interest in the PQS review, I have opted to rehouse the project on sourceforge and rename the project Quan. I am pleased to announce that the first release of Quan is now available. http://sourceforge.net/projects/quan/ There are many changes from pqs-3_1_x, based on the comments in the PQS review. See the quan-0_1_0 release notes on sourceforge for details: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=429568&group_id=170593 The project is also available via CVS: http://quan.cvs.sourceforge.net/quan/ Please also get in touch if you are interested in contributing to the project. regards Andy Little
On 7/4/06, Andy Little <andy@servocomm.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
Hi,
After all the interest in the PQS review, I have opted to rehouse the project on sourceforge and rename the project Quan. I am pleased to announce that the first release of Quan is now available.
Just a side note: in our language here in the Philippines (Filipino), "Quan" is used as an expression when groping for words or referring to something without a name (or which name eludes the person saying it). I think in this case, for lack of a better name for the values/units/quantities "Quan" since it has been a point of contention during the review process, is quite appropriate. ;) -- Dean Michael C. Berris C/C++ Software Architect Orange and Bronze Software Labs http://3w-agility.blogspot.com/ http://cplusplus-soup.blogspot.com/ Mobile: +639287291459 Email: dean [at] orangeandbronze [dot] com
"Dean Michael Berris" wrote
On 7/4/06, Andy Little wrote:
Hi,
After all the interest in the PQS review, I have opted to rehouse the project on sourceforge and rename the project Quan. I am pleased to announce that the first release of Quan is now available.
Just a side note: in our language here in the Philippines (Filipino), "Quan" is used as an expression when groping for words or referring to something without a name (or which name eludes the person saying it). I think in this case, for lack of a better name for the values/units/quantities "Quan" since it has been a point of contention during the review process, is quite appropriate. ;)
Yes, totally by accident as it happens, it seems the name is very suitable :-) Cromwell Enage remarked on it too. I havent added it to the docs yet, but I will add the retrospective "explanation" of the name in the intro. I notice that the Philippines are quite close to Java, but what symbolism there is there I don't know, except that Java programming language has been reasonably successful ! I hope that holds for the Quan library too. regards Andy Little
On 7/6/06, Andy Little <andy@servocomm.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
Just a side note: in our language here in the Philippines (Filipino), "Quan" is used as an expression when groping for words or referring to something without a name (or which name eludes the person saying it). I think in this case, for lack of a better name for the values/units/quantities "Quan" since it has been a point of contention during the review process, is quite appropriate. ;)
Yes, totally by accident as it happens, it seems the name is very suitable :-) Cromwell Enage remarked on it too. I havent added it to the docs yet, but I will add the retrospective "explanation" of the name in the intro.
Very suitable indeed. :-)
I notice that the Philippines are quite close to Java, but what symbolism there is there I don't know, except that Java programming language has been reasonably successful ! I hope that holds for the Quan library too.
Are you talking about the Java programming language being successful here in the Philippines? You can blame/thank (depending on how you see the Java programming language) the educational institutions here for that... ;-) Generally though here in the Philippines, C++ programmers are very rare, thanks to the same educational institutions who proliferate Java and other programming langauages like C/PHP/VB.NET -- and for Quan and Boost to be successful in penetrating the programmer mind-space here, C++ has got to get picked up better by the schools and industry first. But I'd like to think that with Joel de Guzman getting more exposure here in the Philippines, getting to know more of the people in the academe and the IT industry, perhaps we can be able to do something about that. It would also be great if perhaps some of the more influential people on the list (and those who are looking for a vacation spot during the summer) would come over one of these days to spread the love that is Modern C++ Programming in the Philippines... If some of the Boost people are interested in coming over (doing something like a road show of sorts here), then I'd be glad to help out in the arrangements. :) But of course, the above remark will most probably be marked as OT already, so I'll stop now. :-D -- Dean Michael C. Berris C/C++ Software Architect Orange and Bronze Software Labs http://3w-agility.blogspot.com/ http://cplusplus-soup.blogspot.com/ Mobile: +639287291459 Email: dean [at] orangeandbronze [dot] com
Andy Little said: (by the date of Tue, 4 Jul 2006 13:22:26 +0100)
side note - I just started looking at the manual ( at time of writing it it's http://quan.sourceforge.net/quan_matters/doc/html/quan/fixed_quantity_sectio... ) and the navigation commands (Prev Up Home Next) on top and bootom of each page are clickable but invisible (in firefox and galeon). They become visible only when I select all the text on the webpage. -- Janek Kozicki |
Hi Janek, "Janek Kozicki" <janek_listy@wp.pl> wrote in message news:20060705232636.415e4f24@absurd...
Andy Little said: (by the date of Tue, 4 Jul 2006 13:22:26 +0100)
side note - I just started looking at the manual ( at time of writing it it's http://quan.sourceforge.net/quan_matters/doc/html/quan/fixed_quantity_sectio... )
and the navigation commands (Prev Up Home Next) on top and bootom of each page are clickable but invisible (in firefox and galeon). They become visible only when I select all the text on the webpage.
Thanks for the info. Hopefully fixed now. regards Andy Little
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