* Alasdair Lumsden <[email protected]> [2011-05-23 01:15]:
> And lastly, could someone confirm whether the Apache stdcxx C++ library is a 
> viable full alternative to libstdc++ that we could use to avoid the locale 
> issue? If so, does anyone foresee any issues of pairing gcc with libstdc++ to 
> take over from Sun Studio as our compiler of choice for OI (I'm talking 
> theoretically, ignoring the work involved of making everything actually 
> compile with it).

Apache stdcxx upstream activity has largely ceased after 2008 so
it is probably not a good idea to commit to a sinking ship. GCC
libstdc++ and Clang libc++ are actively working on C++'0x support
so it's only a matter of time until some OSS projects start
taking advantage of that.

-- 
Guido Berhoerster

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