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Re: [DotGNU]SEE work this week
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Daniel E Baumann |
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Re: [DotGNU]SEE work this week |
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Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:32:59 -0600 |
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:14:30AM -0500, David Sugar wrote:
> This week I have been focusing on GNU Common C++, which is at the core of
> SEE and several other packages. GNU Common C++ offers some portability to
> nativily build Win32 executables as well as supporting GNU, and other
> posix targets. This cross platform portability is being enhanced with a
> new release, 1.9.0, which should be distributed by the end of the week.
>
> A lot of recent effort has gone into making sure Common C++ 1.9.0 builds
> native clean on win32, as well as improvements in GNU and posix support in
> general. Among other reasons, this was deemed strategically nessisary to
> assure that the Andromeda (SEE) daemon will compile native and available
> on all platforms.
>
> The Andromeda SEE daemon will be updated later this week to reflect
> changes in Common C++ 1.9.0. This is actually an interum release of
> Common C++ until the full 2.0 release is made ready, perhaps before the
> end of the year.
>
> I would like to see if we can use the recent native win32 port of libxml2
> to support GNU Common C++ XML parsing under the win32 platform (we use
> libxml2 for XML support on posix platforms). This should resolve the one
> last issue (portable XML support) for fully supporting a win32 native
> compilable Andromeda SEE.
>
> I hear Rhys has also been very busy with pnet...
I have been using GNU Common C++ heavily and one thing I wish was there
is thread-safe I/O. Do you have a regualr mailing list for GNU Common
C++ Dave? I would be interested in contributing some thread-safe streams
or something.
Dan
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