Re: [Fwd: [jira] Closed: (INFRA-1424) create stdcxx UNIX group]

2008-01-15 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martin Sebor wrote: Only when your CLA shows up on the page below will we be able to request an account for you: http://people.apache.org/~jim/committers.html A footnote, sometimes these fall out of sync; the master reference that's accessible to Martin and other members / officers is at

[Fwd: New wiki created: stdcxx]

2008-01-14 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
FYI, it's live. ---BeginMessage--- A new wiki has just been created by root. Wiki name: stdcxx Wiki title: Apache C++ Standard Library Commits:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PMC notify: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---End Message---

[Announcement] stdcxx Subversion repository moved

2008-01-12 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: About Noon CDT I'll make the transition from http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/stdcxx/ to http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/stdcxx/ This move is complete. If you attempt to svn up/diff/etc you will get the error message: svn: REPORT request failed

Re: Site documentation migrated

2008-01-12 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martin Sebor wrote: E.g., we don't want to change links like this: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/incubator/stdcxx/trunk/src/time_put.cpp?rev=368527view=log even though the file log is now at: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/stdcxx/trunk/src/time_put.cpp and changing it (removing incubator/

SATURDAY Moving Day for stdcxx Subversion repository

2008-01-09 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Want to ensure this is as easy as possible, if you think you might trip over this move, I'll be on irc.freenode.net #asf channel right before the move. About Noon CDT I'll make the transition from http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/stdcxx/ to http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/stdcxx/

Re: stdcxx wiki

2008-01-02 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martin Sebor wrote: Does anyone have any experience with either engine that might be helpful in deciding between the two? Or preference for one over the other? All the projects I participate in use the MoinMoin wiki, and are essentially happy with it. Bill

[patch] drop incubating disclaimer

2007-12-13 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Attached for your consideration, Bill Index: stdcxx/ChangeLog === --- stdcxx/ChangeLog (revision 603963) +++ stdcxx/ChangeLog (working copy) @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2007-12-13 William Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + * README: Struck

Re: [PATCH] MSVC has non-standard prototype of the wcstok()

2007-12-12 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martin Sebor wrote: I see. Well, there's nothing we can do about that. I guess we'll have to live with the compiler-specific #ifdefs in our code. I tell you, if it weren't for Microsoft porting would be so boring... ;-) C'mon - you can't say that aix CC and hpux aCC don't provide endless

Re: [PING] Re: svn commit: r588290 - /incubator/stdcxx/branches/4.2.x/etc/config/windows/projectdef.js

2007-11-05 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martin Sebor wrote: I meant the problems that Liviu was talking about. I.e., if someone is using a debug build of stdcxx 4.2.0 on Windows, will they be able to step through stdcxx code? If not, I think it would be worthwhile to document why and point them to a patch they can download to make it

[Fwd: November Incubator Reports]

2007-11-05 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Although we've held the graduation vote, the board hasn't processed the request. This month's report should probably be our presumed-final incubation report and recap the graduation process, eh? These are our last comments the board will read prior to voting on the new top level project

Re: [RFC] stdcxx release process

2007-11-05 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Travis Vitek wrote: Section 2 [Roles During a Release] Paragraph 1 Sentence 6 reads Changes to the Release Criteria require the consent of all committers. I agree with Travis' concerns. I'd hint for something like requires consensus of the committers. In order to ensure that all

Re: svn commit: r588290 - /incubator/stdcxx/branches/4.2.x/etc/config/windows/projectdef.js

2007-10-31 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Farid Zaripov wrote: As they say, it's combined into the output .pdb, but in general the src pdb contains information useless to anyone except the object linker, so it is bloated. Agreed. Fixed thus: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=590686view=rev A fun way to test 'for free' without loading

Re: svn commit: r588290 - /incubator/stdcxx/branches/4.2.x/etc/config/windows/projectdef.js

2007-10-30 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Farid Zaripov wrote: I don't completely understand which one unstable results could be? After the patch: 1. in static builds the source pdb is generating in OutDir with the name libstdxx.pdb; the binary pdb doesn't exist since the static library is produced by lib.exe, but not by

Re: svn commit: r588290 - /incubator/stdcxx/branches/4.2.x/etc/config/windows/projectdef.js

2007-10-29 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Author: faridz Date: Thu Oct 25 10:40:21 2007 New Revision: 588290 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=588290view=rev Log: 2007-10-25 Farid Zaripov [EMAIL PROTECTED] * projectdef.js (projectCreateVCProject): Generate .pdb file in $(OutDir) instead of

Re: svn commit: r588290 - /incubator/stdcxx/branches/4.2.x/etc/config/windows/projectdef.js

2007-10-29 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: patched, but combining them may lead to some unstable results and also bloated .pdb's without benefits to the debugger (?). Footnote - source .pdb's for a static .lib file that you distribute /are/ interesting to the end user, but you shouldn't generate one source

Re: Use of /Fd option on Windows

2007-10-25 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
For dynamic libs, use /Fd to point to a DIFFERENT file name, because that source-code .pdb is unrelated to the resulting binary .pdb that results from link /debug /opt:ref (otherwise indistinguishable from link /release but for massively useful information :-) I've taken to calling these

Re: [Fwd: [VOTE RESULT] graduate stdcxx to TLP]

2007-10-19 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martin Sebor wrote: I should have read the Graduation Guide more carefully -- my bad. :) Unless one of you has already beat me to it, I'll forward the resolution in the expected format to the Board in time for the next meeting, i.e., at least 3 days prior to 11/14. Please do - in fact you

Re: /VERSION linker option on Windows

2007-10-18 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Farid Zaripov wrote: But personally for me the version in the version info resource would be more interesting. BTW there are more fields, i.e. Copyright, Product Name, Company Name, Description, ... From your answer, I presume it's no.

Re: /VERSION linker option on Windows

2007-10-18 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martin Sebor wrote: Are we making use of it? If not, should we be? http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h88b7dc8(VS.80).aspx It's not terribly interesting. You really want to focus on the VERSIONINFO member of the library's dll resource, which provides a whole lot more meaningful

Re: renaming branches/4.2.0 to branches/4.2

2007-09-11 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martin Sebor wrote: Just a heads up: I plan to make this change today. If anyone has any concerns, please speak up now. The trouble of course is that you break local checkouts unless those folks use 'svn switch' to flip the repository location. One alternative is to leave 4.2.0 in place for

Re: svn commit: r565959 - /incubator/stdcxx/trunk/etc/config/src/EXTERN_C_EXCEPTIONS.cpp

2007-08-21 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Farid Zaripov wrote: From: Martin Sebor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I just found out that the /Ehc flag enables the nothrow default for C linkage functions. So changing the /EHsc flag to /EHs will fix this for both VC7 and 8. Do you happen to know if there's a #pragma that will let us

Re: atomic tests timing out on Windows

2007-07-29 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martin Sebor wrote: Here are a couple of articles from the Intel Knowledge Base that don't appear to come with a restrictive license or even a copyright. The code is Windows-specific but it should be possible to translate it to something understandable to gcc and other compilers (Sun C++ on

Re: next steps toward graduation

2007-07-29 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martin Sebor wrote: 1. Preparations. i) Complete (and sign off) tasks documented in the status file. Status file needs to be updated. The page that's up on the site doesn't reflect the most recent changes to the file (see below). The last time I tried to get the site

Re: [VOTE] ready to graduate

2007-07-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Amit Jindal wrote: +1 definitely! I have no doubt on the stability or the quality of this library. Its rock solid as it always has been. Keep in mind, the 'graduation' isn't about releasing the library (we've had one incubating release, and could have more at whatever point we wanted).

Re: [VOTE] ready to graduate

2007-07-05 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martin Sebor wrote: In order to propose graduation to the Incubator PMC we all need to formally agree that we are ready. This is a vote to ascertain this agreement. [+1] Check here (or use +1) to indicate you agree that stdcxx is ready to graduate. With a caviat - I'd expect the

Re: [VOTE] ready to graduate

2007-07-05 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martin Sebor wrote: Btw., does APR use RAT? If so, could you point us at the files and supporting infrastructure you use to set it all up so we could see if we could get it done quickly ourselves? We never have that I know of - but as APR was written from the ground up as an httpd project

Re: 4.2.0 build and test results

2007-06-28 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martin, I'm thinking you could use this snapshot as a plea for someone on [EMAIL PROTECTED] to run RAT against either a snapshot, or against the subversion tag, if they have RAT installed and handy? Bill Martin Sebor wrote: With Andrew's help I've created a page with the build and test

Re: STDCXX progress to graduation

2007-06-23 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martin Sebor wrote: It got started but we never did go through all the files to check that we didn't miss any (which we of course did). I just finished a sweep through our sources and updated those that still needed it. The record of the changes is here:

STDCXX progress to graduation

2007-06-21 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
[How's that for optimism? please not corrected stdcxx-dev list address] I'm including general in this thread to give the incubator community some small insight into stdcxx's efforts and next steps to graduate. As far as I can see there are no remaining obstacles.

Re: STDCXX progress to graduation

2007-06-21 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Noel J. Bergman wrote: William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: diversity is increasing (we wish it were broader, but I suspect this project with the visibility of full ASF status will attract additional committers who might have been hedging their bets on whether or not the project would survive

Re: [VOTE] commit-then-review vs review-then-commit policy

2007-05-23 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martin Sebor wrote: I think the discussion has wound down so let's have a vote and decide whether stdcxx committers should follow the Commit-Then Review (CTR) or Review-Then-Commit (RTC) policy on stdcxx/trunk by default. [+1] All committers follow Commit-Then-Review for safe changes,

Questions raised by May report

2007-05-16 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
* I'm qurious about http://incubator.apache.org/stdcxx/#committers. Why some people are following CTR and others RTC? quoting that page Stdcxx Committers are Developers with commit (or write) access to the stdcxx codebase. Except where noted, all stdcxx committers follow the Review-Then-Commit

Re: Questions raised by May report

2007-05-16 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: * I'm qurious about http://incubator.apache.org/stdcxx/#committers. Why some people are following CTR and others RTC? quoting that page Stdcxx Committers are Developers with commit (or write) access to the stdcxx codebase. Except where noted, all stdcxx

[Fwd: WARNING - 2 days to deadline for May reports]

2007-05-07 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Drat. F/W of the belated reminder. ---BeginMessage--- Well this sort of sucks - with everyone so busy at ApacheCon EU, we've neglected to remind you of the deadline on the 9th (posted months ago) for http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/May2007 Abdera Lokahi NMaven RCF ServiceMix stdcxx Tika TSIK

[Fwd: REMINDER: BOARD REPORTS]

2007-02-11 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Yes, it's that time again. Who wants to pick this up? I strongly suggest it's time to contemplate graduation; we've been working at stdcxx-private to ensure all the major contributors are accounted for so we could graduate with a comprehensive list of committers and PMC members. After

Re: Generation of the solution and projects for MSVC/ICC

2006-08-31 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martin Sebor wrote: I agree. I also don't like the IDE hiding the command line. I like seeing the exact command line for each source file just as it would be issued by make, even if it's the same as for all the other sources. Note that .dsp exports into .mak format allow you to do just that,

Re: Generation of the solution and projects for MSVC/ICC

2006-08-30 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Farid Zaripov wrote: Hi All. I have found another way to generate solution and project files. This way is using VisualStudio Automation objects so we do not need to worry about solution and project files format. Drinking the kool-aid, eh :-? Intermediating with solutions and projects

Re: using stdcxx in tuscany/C++

2006-07-06 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Great news! Thanks for keeping us in the loop. Martin Sebor wrote: Hi, We have heard that the Tuscany developers have been exploring the option of using Apache stdcxx as the common implementation of the C++ Standard Library for Tuscany/C++. We are wondering whether this is in fact the case

Steps twords graduations

2006-07-06 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
FYI I'm very satisfied with the overall progress of stdcxx, but see two obstacles to graduation; * the bug tracking system is being well utilized to discuss patches, but the dev list is still a bit quiet on the design-decision front. It's important that decisions are open and not made in

Re: x.y.z numbering and releases

2006-01-22 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martin Sebor wrote: Okay, so just to make sure we're all clear, the process we seem to be converging on goes like this: 1. branch X.Y.Z/ from trunk/ 2. with N starting at 1, tag the X.Y.Z/ branch X.Y.X-rc-N/ and create the corresponding tarball, stdcxx-X.Y.Z-rc-N.tar.gz; vote

Re: x.y.z numbering and releases

2006-01-19 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Martin Sebor wrote: I have no objection to tagging the 1.2.3 branch 1.2.3-rcN for each tarball that's about to be voted on but I suspect that may not fully address your concerns (i.e., the fact that there is a 1.2.3 branch before an official release has taken place). I do believe it does,

Re: who is stdcxx sponsor?

2005-08-22 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Okay, thank you both for the clarification. Just out of curiosity, when would the Board be the Sponsor? If, for example, the board privately negotatied the movement of a project from it's old home, after it privately appealed to the ASF for consideration in the incubator. This would be a very

Re: who is stdcxx sponsor?

2005-08-18 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 02:54 AM 8/18/2005, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 02:15:46PM -0600, Martin Sebor wrote: Mentors: While Justin is named as the stdcxx sponsor in the STDCXX proposal http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/200505.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] the policy