On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 18:20:57 -0400 Mark Loeser <halcy0n@gentoo.org>
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...

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