[VOTE] Retirement of stdcxx to the 'Attic'?

2012-02-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Fans and contributors, it appears that the stdcxx project is entirely dormant. The ASF has launched a new 'Attic' project over the past two years, to neatly retire dormant works until and unless a community comes along who wishes to revive the effort. As a simple formality your votes please;

Re: [VOTE] Retirement of stdcxx to the 'Attic'?

2012-02-02 Thread Andrew Black
+1 While it appears that there is some traffic on the wiki page (documenting compiler support for various STDCXX 0X features), no effort is being undertaken to update the library to support these features. On 02/02/2012 12:03 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: Fans and contributors, it appears

Re: [VOTE] Retirement of stdcxx to the 'Attic'?

2012-02-02 Thread Stefan Teleman
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:03, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: Fans and contributors, it appears that the stdcxx project is entirely dormant.  The ASF has launched a new 'Attic' project over the past two years, to neatly retire dormant works until and unless a community comes along

Re: [VOTE] Retirement of stdcxx to the 'Attic'?

2012-02-02 Thread Michael van der Westhuizen
Sadly, +1. This is an outstanding piece of software, but it needs active maintenance. On 02 Feb 2012, at 7:03 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: Fans and contributors, it appears that the stdcxx project is entirely dormant. The ASF has launched a new 'Attic' project over the past two years,

Re: [VOTE] Retirement of stdcxx to the 'Attic'?

2012-02-02 Thread Andrew Black
While I am not completely familiar with the process, I took a couple minutes to look at the website for the Attic project ( http://attic.apache.org/ ), and I thought I'd summarize the implications of this move as I understand them. A move to the attic means the following (major) changes to

Re: [disscuss] Retirement of stdcxx to the 'Attic'?

2012-02-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 2/2/2012 2:17 PM, Andrew Black wrote: While I am not completely familiar with the process, I took a couple minutes to look at the website for the Attic project ( http://attic.apache.org/ ), and I thought I'd summarize the implications of this move as I understand them. Good summary. *

Re: [disscuss] Retirement of stdcxx to the 'Attic'?

2012-02-02 Thread Stefan Teleman
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 17:57, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: The much larger issue is that the ASF is designed as a collaboration hub where multiple consumers can be represented.  It is designed to avoid the need for forks except in radical divisions within communities where