Re: [sigc] libsigc++ project status - is it dead?

["Jesper Juhl" <jesper juhl gmail com>]

On 14/05/07, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 22:48 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > While looking for a C++ signalt and slots library to use together with
> > SDL and a few other bits, I stumbled across libsigc++.
> >
> > I've read through the documentation and managed to build a few small
> > test apps using the library and I like it very much.  But there's one
> > thing that concerns me, the project seems to be dead.  The last 2.0.17
> > release is from 20-Dec-2005
>
> It's not completely bug-free, but obviously the open bugs are not so
> serious that anyone has worked on them. Mostly it just works well
> enough.
That was my impression as well. At least so far it has worked
perfectly for the simple test apps I've written.

Any idea when the next update/bug-fix release is due? Not that it
seems to be much needed, just currious :-)

> >  and there's almost no traffic on the
> > mailing list.
>
> I hope this is because our documentation is good enough and because it's
> a small simple API.
For the basic things, the documentation is indeed good. I've not moved
much beyond the first 3 chapters in the tutorial docs and the
rebinding stuff from chapter 4, but up to now I've certainly been
happy with the docs and example programs.

> >   This makes me a bit worried - if I start using the
> > library in serious projects it would be nice to know if it's still a
> > live project or if it has been abandoned.
>
> It's a dependency of gtkmm, and part of the GNOME Platform Bindings
> release sets. It's not going to stop working, and if it did, there's
> lots of people who would need to fix it.
That's good to know. Makes me a lot more comfortable making my own
projects depend on the library.

If I run into problems that I'm able to fix I'll make sure to send patches.

> > Can you enlighten me on the status of the library/project ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >  Jesper Juhl
>
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> Murray Cumming
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Thank you very much for your reply.

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