On 25 September 2013 15:05, Rodrigo Madera <[email protected]> wrote: > Mateusz, > > Is it your interest to keep SOCI separated, as it's creator intended?
Rodrigo, As I mentioned, I'm neutral. I just wanted to provide you with some background that may help you to understand why SOCI has not been submitted to Boost, and that background explains Maciej's decisions (all Boost-related activities had happened when Maciej was the active maintainer of SOCI). > If so, that's decided. Otherwise, I guess you could get some volunteers to > help you out Boostifying the library, breaking up the effort. That's what I mean saying I'm neutral. If someone thinks that SOCI should become part of Boost and is ready to lead the necessary actions, I will not object such motion at all. I could even try to contribute to it myself. SOCI is an open source project; anyone who wants to contribute is more than welcome to participate (submit patches or ask for commit access); anyone who wants to lead any action within SOCI is welcome to do it. So, if the current team of active developers will agree, everyone is free to can take action for SOCI's good, including taking over the maintenance. I just hold the broom here, but doesn't mean I'm glued to it permanently :) > Either way, SOCI is a great library that I've used it for all my Database > needs. Even without the (much desired) binary transfer modes. I'm in favour of binary transfer, but it is tricky. If you search through soci-users/devel or Boost lists, you can find some discussions. Here is one of the more important ones where Maciej explains some quirks: http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2008/07/139689.php I have played with binary transfer for PostgreSQL and one of obstacles we would have to overcome: NUMERIC data type: https://github.com/mloskot/workshop/blob/master/postgresql/numeric/postgresql_binary_numeric.cpp Tricky :) > Being solo or a Boost library, I'll continue to use it (and love it). Cheers! Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net "Participation in this whole process is a form of torture" ~~ Szalony ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60133471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ soci-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/soci-users
