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On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 18:20:57 -0400 Mark Loeser <halcy0n@g.o> |
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| Since we currently have language herds for other languages such as |
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| Ada, Perl, and Java, I don't think C++ should be any different. |
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| There are currently many packages in the tree that are C++ libraries |
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| or utilities that are no-herd and are actively maintained, and there |
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| are probably some that have just been sitting around rotting. With |
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| the creation of a C++ herd, there would be a team that could support |
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| these packages, instead of a single maintainer, if the package has |
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| one. Below is a list of all of the packages that I believe would |
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| qualify as falling under this herd. If you see your name in the |
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| following list, I'd especially like to hear from you. Names with a |
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| '?' next to them are packages that had no metadata and I guessed from |
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| the changelog who the maintainer is. I would also like to see many of |
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| them, if not all, moved to the dev-cpp |
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| category: |
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I use some of those. Count me in, so long as I don't ever have to touch |
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the hideous monstrosity that is boost... |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |