Re: Ideas on the future of Quesa.

[James W. W. <ja...@wr...>]

Dair Grant <da...@re...> wrote:

>It's always easier to work on this kind of project if you have a product
>that actually uses it, but without that motivation you're fighting a
>losing battle against a)projects that bring in your salary and b)your
>non-work life.
>
>
>So, I think the time has come for me to move on from Quesa - and to
>leave it in the capable hands of the other developers.

Understandable.  Thanks for all your work on Quesa.

Now that Quesa on SourceForge has 6 full-fledged project admins,  is 
there still a Steering Committee that separates me and Roger Holmes 
from the other admins?

...
>Similarly for exceptions - I've yet to see a project where they helped,
>but have seen several where they were the beginning of the end. :-)

You can't really use STL without using exceptions, since STL classes 
throw exceptions.  Of course you can go overboard with anything.  I 
do want us to continue having a C public API, so no exceptions can be 
allowed to escape from Quesa.

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