From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EGRna-00025n-8B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:47:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j8H1fXsd007665; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:41:33 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8H1dpg6031377 for ; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:39:51 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EGRlG-0004au-Ac for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:45:02 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EGRls-0002VR-4G for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:45:40 +0100 Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:45:37 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal Message-ID: <20050917024537.74c60871@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <432B4549.1070400@gentoo.org> References: <432B4549.1070400@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13 (GTK+ 2.6.8; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Signature_Sat__17_Sep_2005_02_45_37_+0100_j8ww9PIuefgZ_jqi; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 60a9580d-d1ef-44ab-aefd-3a78e94bfd6e X-Archives-Hash: 18f6f5f133ed3024d4fc1fb953390bd9 --Signature_Sat__17_Sep_2005_02_45_37_+0100_j8ww9PIuefgZ_jqi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 18:20:57 -0400 Mark Loeser 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... --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Sat__17_Sep_2005_02_45_37_+0100_j8ww9PIuefgZ_jqi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDK3VD96zL6DUtXhERAuITAJ4yXur8tvc/Bk62beIXs8m8vKkE6ACg4Ljw n1MAhc+/BQ46TfkCtqVrCi4= =cEa7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Sat__17_Sep_2005_02_45_37_+0100_j8ww9PIuefgZ_jqi-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list