Re: [nowide] Future

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-12-02 15:19:32

Artyom Beilis wrote:
> The nowide library was reviewed and accepted into Boost almost 3 years 
> ago.
>
> I implemented most of fixes required under Review Fixed branch
>
> https://github.com/artyom-beilis/nowide/tree/reviewfixes
>
> Unfortunately I don't have any capacity to do maintenance for it on all 
> various platforms: MSVC, mingw. cygwin etc mostly because virtually I 
> don't develop on Windows and any time I need to go there I need to figure 
> it out from the beginning (installations, environment, msvc) and I don't 
> even have windows machine in my hands (all done in VM)
>
> I realized that I'm not windows developer any more and it would be 
> impossible for me to complete the mission of maintaining the code mostly 
> due to personal reasons and lack of development resources.
>
> I deeply regret wasting the time and effort of so many boost developers 
> who invested to review. I understand that it is highly desired library but 
> I just can get the job done
>
> I seek for your advice. Do I need to seek for an another maintainer or 
> withdraw the library entirely?

Hi Artyom,

I think that it would be a net win for the community if we release the 
library, so as a first step, you can transfer the repository to me (pdimov), 
I'll move it to boostorg, and we'll take it from there.

The 'reviewfixes' branch isn't merged yet, I gather?