Re: [boost] [gil] What is the status of the Gil extension numeric?

Subject: Re: [boost] [gil] What is the status of the Gil extension numeric?
From: Andrew Hundt (athundt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-03-13 17:09:24

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Christian Henning <chhenning_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Andrew Hundt <athundt_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > I've been using gil for about 2 years now, and it appears the only
> > development being done on the library itself is being done by Christian
> > Henning in the io_library and some of the extensions he has created, in
> > addition to some minor fixes. I think his latest is at:
> > https://code.google.com/p/gil-contributions/
>
> The latest is on the boost trunk. The new io extension will be
> released either with 1.53 or 1.54. I have been travelling and I might
> have missed the deadline to include gil::io into the release branch.
> Need to check with the release team.
>

Apologies for my fast and loose wording. I meant to refer to extensions
rather than gil itself. Where would be the best place to get things like
the opencv extensions that are not in trunk?

>
> >
> > As far as I can tell Adobe has completely dropped support for the library
> > aside from continuing to host the pages as they were when they were last
> > updated around 2007-2008.
> >
> > If someone else knows otherwise I would also like to hear about it.
>
> I accordance with the original creators we have decided that I'm the
> official maintainer.
>

Great! I'm very glad it is being maintained now.

Cheers!
Andrew Hundt