Steve M. Robbins wrote:
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Great idea. In fact, Raphael wrote a message to debian-devel in March <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0103/msg00946.html> proposing to package this. I see now that he didn't file a bug on WNPP, however.
Ah, good! I should have checked d-d as well, but I assumed everything went to wnpp. I'm extremely grateful that someone is doing this. It will be of great help.
Since we're on the topic of C++ libraries, has anyone looked at Loki from Andrei Alexandrescu? It is described in "Modern C++ Design" from AW, but the website (www.moderncppdesign.com)is currently down. I'm not sure of the license. Loki is a library of (among other things) templates that implement a small object allocator, generic functors, mutimethods and some common design patterns like factories, visitors and the like. It also includes a nifty "typelist" idea that makes working with templates extremely friendly. I know this library would get _heavy_ use in my work.
Some recent discussion on gcc-devel concluded that Loki uses some non-standard (read: illegal) C++ code, so that would have to be fixed.
I don't want to file a formal RFP until the website comes back up (I got the sense that it was moving to a more permanent location) and I can find out about the license.
-Dave
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