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