Re: Development

["Dennis Melentyev" <dennis.melentyev@xxxxxxxxx>]

2007/5/13, Erik Wikström <erik-wikstrom@telia.com>:
> On 2007-05-13 17:31, Dennis Melentyev wrote:
. ..

> > What am I considering as a good idea: check of STL support in GCC 4x
> > under DFLY. It might be already Ok, but I'd rather have it verified.
>
> I think libstdc++ is quite standards compliant, perhaps it's not 100%
> but it's close enough for the vast majority of applications. They even
> have an implementation of the TR1 extensions which is more than Visual
> Studio (which is quite standards compliant) does.

Nice to hear that!

> > Next one: support of WxWidgets, MySQL++, ACE. May be some other
> > frequently used libraries.
>
> Those are more of pkgsrc issues but don't let that stop you, even the
> best system would be worthless without applications to run on it.
>
> The same goes for Ronald, there are still a number of applications in
> pkgsrc that does not build under DF, some of them ought to be written in
> C++ so perhaps if you make some of them work it would provide the most
> benefit for the DF project.

. .. just help them to use exciting DragonFly BSD features like
powerful threading, SMP and [kernel] message queueing. Dunno is it
possible to make them benefit from VFS journaling.
The best support for the OS is to make popular SW more robust on this
particular OS. :)

Ah! Another idea to work on: journal administration facade. Although,
could be arguable for use of C++ here.

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Dennis Melentyev