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

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 00:10 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> 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 :-)

There are no changes in the ChangeLog, so no need for a new release.

> > >  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
> Thank you very much for your reply.
> 
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