From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: libg++?
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 22:12:21 -0000
Message-ID: <9708302212.AA20985@beeblebrox-84.synopsys.com>
In-reply-to: u9sovr2wk7.fsf@yorick.cygnus.com
X-SW-Source: 1997-08/0814.html
Message-ID: <19970830221221.FSPCSPvoNmTs-JQbytBzvFDJ7Du_cxNDdOpGq5NlH3M@z>

> The libg++ directory hasn't been modified because it doesn't relate to the
> standard, and we're not interested in maintaining it anymore (I think;
> right, Ulrich?).  Someone else is welcome to take it over.

The only parts of old libg++ that I think are that interesting anymore are
the random number classes: there's a nice scheme to generate a variety of
types of random numbers with different distributions.  I think these
originally came from Dirk Grunwald's Awesime project, not from Doug Lea.
Ptolemy used them.

Much of the rest of libg++ I would consider obsolete: String, Complex,
the containers, especially now that we have the SGI hashing classes and
singly linked list.  Just the same, some people still use it, so we can
put it out and call it deprecated.