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Re: Time to rewrite dpkg



* Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho said:

> > Is that true, I have heard this agrument often, but is it true, and is it still
> > so today ? Is there effort made to fix this ? how far are they ?
> 
> I haven't used RTTI, but in my experience templates work without problems
> and exceptions work most of the time (the problems I have may well be
Yes, most of the time..., but you can't rely on them working all the time.

> my bugs, not egcs').  Namespaces need work: for example, there is no
> clear separation between global namespace and the std namespace.
The namespace concept, as documented in the standards, is not implemented
even in half on the GNU platform, IMO.

> EGCS has contributed much to the progress.  A year ago I didn't feel
> like C++ was ready for my use on the GNU platform.
That's true, but it will take some more time before it is fully working.

marek

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