(Fwd) Re: libstdc++, sgi's stl, stlport (fwd)

[Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at cygnus dot com>]

just gettting back, forwarded by request. . .

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 13:41:56 -0800
From: Matt Austern <austern@isolde.engr.sgi.com>
To: bkoz@cygnus.com
Subject: (Fwd) Re: libstdc++, sgi's stl, stlport

Benjamin,

Would you mind forwarding this to the libstdc++ mailing list?
There's some kind of configuration problem, and the list software
isn't talking to SGI's mailer right not.  (Apparently we're on
an ORBS blacklist, and the list software refuses postings from
anything on the blacklist.  I don't know whether our presence on
the blacklist is accurate, but clearly I won't be able to post
to the libstdc++ mailing list until either your mail adminstrator
or ours changes something.)

Thanks,
			Matt

P.S.  We should be putting out another I/O library snapshot within
the next few days.


--- Forwarded mail from <austern> ("Matt Austern")

From: "Matt Austern" <austern>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 08:26:27 -0800
To: Levente Farkas <!spam-lfarkas@mindmaker.hu>,
        libstdc++@sourceware.cygnus.com, stl@sgi.com
Subject: Re: libstdc++, sgi's stl, stlport
Sender: owner-stl-maintainers@corp.sgi.com
Reply-To: "Matt Austern" <austern>

The connection between SGI's library and stlport is simple: stlport
is Boris Fomitchev's adaptation of our library, mostly for the sake
of portability to a greater range of platforms.

The connection between SGI's library and libstdc++ is more complicated
and more tenuous.  Both are open source C++ library projects, and the
STL part of libstdc++ is based on the STL part of SGI's library.  There
isn't any direct connection between the iostream/locale part of SGI's
library and the iostream/locale part of libstdc++, though.  (Although
the two groups do talk to each other.)

There are some minor technical differences in the design of the two
projects.  In one sense SGI's library is less portable than libstdc++
(it has only been tested on three operating systems), and in another
sense it is more portable (it has been tested using three completely
different compilers and libc implementations, while libstdc++ relies
on g++ and glibc).

But yes, as the three freeware C++ library projects mature (by which
I mean SGI's library, libstdc++, and Dietmar Kuehl's library), I
hope there can be more cooperation.

			--Matt Austern


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