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

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

On 14/05/07, Paul Davis <pjdavis engineering uiowa edu> wrote:
> On 5/14/07, Michael Ekstrand <mekstran scl ameslab gov> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 22:48 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > > 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 and there's almost no traffic on the
> > > mailing list.  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.
> > >
> > > Can you enlighten me on the status of the library/project ?
> >
> > It's very much in active use - GTKmm makes extensive use of it.  It
> > hasn't seen much change lately, but that just means it's stable.  It's
> > still excercised regularly.
> >
> > - Michael
> >
> > --
> > Michael Ekstrand
> > Research Assistant, Scalable Computing Laboratory
> > Goanna, compute cluster and InfiniBand network monitor tool:
> >         http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/Projects/Monitor/
> >
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> >
>
> Jesper,
>
> Just to echo Michael's comments, libsigc++ is used by gtkmm and won't
> be going anywhere for a long long time.
>
> Although, I did want to point out that if you're already using boost,
> you might also want to check out their functor packages.  The two
> systems are almost identical ( which is on purpose IIRC ), but if
> you're already using other boost packages, that might make more sense.
>
> HTH,
> Paul Davis

I'm not using any of the boost libraries, but thank you for the info
I'll check it out.

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