Re: [Blitz-dev] one question and one request

[Todd V. <tve...@os...>]

Yes, I am still about.  Here's the situation:  I'm in the final year
of my dissertation work, and thesis work plus waning interest exclude
my spending substantial time on Blitz++.  I have given both Patrick
Guio and Julian Cummings write access to the cvs repository.

I am not opposed in principle to moving blitz to sourceforge.  Our
longterm plans here in my lab are to set up a sourceforge server (or
something similar) to handle external contributions to our libraries
better (we also have MTL, Boost, and MPI work ongoing in our lab).

Cheers,
Todd

Techentin, Robert W. wrote:
> 
> I'm not so sure that Blitz is completely dead.  Somebody (Todd Veldhuizen?)
> is at least moderating this list.  My latest CVS checkout shows code
> revisions in March 2002, where Patric Guio made modifications to support the
> latest HP-UX aCC compiler.  So there is at least some capability for making
> updates.  
> 
> But it looks like the next most-recent changes were made in Jan/Feb 2001 -
> more than a year ago.  Messages on the three mailing lists are somewhat
> sparse.  It is hard to tell how many Blitz users there are, or even how many
> of the scores of people recognized at
> http://www.oonumerics.org/blitz/contribute/thanks.html are still interested
> or active.
> 
> Todd, are you still out there?  Are you (or any of the other "contributors")
> still actively interested in Blitz?  If not, would you be willing to open up
> Blitz to other developers?  Or even approve a move to sourceforge, where
> more developers could access and support the code?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bob
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mattias Lindström [mailto:mat...@na...] 
> > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 2:21 AM
> > To: bli...@oo...
> > Subject: Re: [Blitz-dev] one question and one request
> > 
> > 
> > Blitz is almost dead. As I understand, there are no real 
> > developers working on it anymore. People begin to use other 
> > libraries instead. It's a pity because blitz is a good 
> > expression template and array handling library.
> > 
> > /Mattias
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <eri...@ph...>
> > To: <bli...@oo...>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 12:56 PM
> > Subject: [Blitz-dev] one question and one request
> > 
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > the question : the last snapshots dated from december 2000, 
> > why there 
> > > is
> > no new update since this date,
> > > is the project stopped ? can we expected a release version ?
> > >
> > > The request : I think it could be interesting to have the 
> > possibilty 
> > > to
> > manage sparse matrix.
> > >
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