[Adobe-source-devel] Moving ASL to github

[Sean P. <sea...@ma...>]

I've started what is planned to be a long migration of ASL to github. The
ASL perforce database is now locked.

You can find the current ASL mainline sources at:

github/stlab/legacy

The reason why they are in the legacy repo is that I plan to move the
libraries to a structure conforming with the boost modular libraries
(github/boost-lib).

I will be starting with some of the libraries I've been using in a product
I've been working on at Adobe (currently these are forked from ASL, so I'm
doing this as part of upstreaming that work).

Beside moving to github and module based libraries, I'm also working on:

Updating ASL to C++11, removing unnecessary dependencies from boost (where
C++11 libraries suffice) and removing overlap with newer boost libraries.

Simplifying ASL by removing the ABI stable support for those libraries that
use it, and taking a more pragmatic approach to the libraries (many were
done as experiments where the complexity is unwarranted given the results).

As modules are split out and cleaned up I plan to propose them for
inclusion in boost as appropriate.

I'd also like to consolidate as much of the remaining
ASL infrastructure (we currently have mailing lists and issue tracking on
source forge, website and wiki hosted by Adobe, and now source code moving
to github). Suggestions and recommendations welcome.

I'm hoping that moving to github will make it easier to collaborate with
others on ASL. If you would like to help, let me know. If you have
suggestions, let me know.

Thanks,
Sean