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From: Todd Veldhuizen (tveldhui_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-03 10:54:18
Hi Oliver, Julian, listreaders,
I've put a new release+snapshot on the download page and fixed the
broken links to the mailing lists. The new release compiles and
passes the testsuite under gcc 2.96.
I'm not in a position to do more than minimal maintenance. This is
for two reasons:
(1) I'm preoccupied with writing a dissertation;
(2) I'm embarassed to admit that a lot of my knowledge of the blitz
internals has "expired from cache," as it were. Last time I tried
to figure out a bug in the nastier parts of blitz/array/eval.cc
I came to the realization that I no longer remember what much
of that code did. Because of (1) relearning blitz internals is
not a priority for me.
I have started the process of moving blitz to sourceforge. It's
reasonable to expect that blitz will continue to be usable and
have bug fixes, so I don't think there's reason to worry the
project will die.
Best,
Todd
Schoenborn, Oliver wrote:
>
> Hello to all of you, I would like to know whether we can honestly expect
> blitz++ to survive very long without showing much sign of life on the web
> site!! E.g. why there hasn't been a new release in over a year, eventhough
> the cvs development branch has been progressing nicely, and why there is no
> official statement about "slow down in development" or "expected next
> release" etc.
>
> I'm asking because I haven't found a library that combines the ease of use
> with power (MTL is latter but totally unfriendly to use) that blitz++ does,
> so I'm interested in keeping it alive and helping in some way to do that.
>
> Some things that need to be done quickly (and that I would be willing to
> help with):
> * Some links must be pointing to old lists or something because if you
> go via the Lists link one the home page you get one list archive, whereas if
> you go via the Support link you get another one, which is not current.
> * A new release, or at the very least a snapshot
> * Some news telling people what the hell is going on (will it live or
> not... should people look for other libraries or not... and if so which are
> the best alternatives given e.g. simplicity vs power etc)
>
> Thanks,
> Oliver Schoenborn
>
-- Todd Veldhuizen / tveldhui_at_[hidden] / Indiana University Computer Science _______________________________________________ Blitz-dev mailing list Blitz-dev_at_[hidden] http://www.oonumerics.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/blitz-dev