Re: [Adobe-source-devel] Moving ASL to github

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

I setup a section on our wiki to document the transition to github. That
can be found here:

http://stlab.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Github_migration

Not a lot there at the moment - but should be enough to get people started.

Sean


On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Sean Parent <sea...@ma...> wrote:

> 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
>