Re: Checklist update

[Gabriel Dos_Reis <Gabriel.Dos_Reis@sophia.inria.fr>]

Benjamin Scherrey <scherrey@switchco.com> writes:

| The checklist @ http://sourceware.cygnus.com/libstdc++/checklist.txt
| claims not to have been updated since 1998.10.31. Is there any chance it
| will be updated soon so us new folks can see what state the various
| features are in?

Yes. In fact it was updated last night :-) We've been involved in fixing
various nasty problems in the process of preparing the next snapshot
--which I hope should be available soon.

| Also, I noticed that our stl code is based on the SGI STL. Has it been
| decided just to use their STL (fine by me) or will it be significantly
| patched so as to be considered a branch of their code? How will new
| releases of SGI's code impact the development here?

libstdc++-v3 incorporates a large amount of SGI-STL. However some SGI
implementations are deliberately left out, namely <string>, <valarray> 
and <limits>. libstdc++-v3 supplies its own implementations. Furthermore 
as far as I can tell SGI-allocators are disabled for multi-thread
safety issues. 

| Finally, what are the primary development areas that need the most
| attention today?

I would suggest fast streams and relatives.

Regards,

-- Gaby