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From: garnett@roadster.bellcore.com (Michael Garnett)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: comp.sources.c++ [WAS: Classes repository?]
Keywords: Classes repository
Message-ID: <1991Jan4.143759@roadster.bellcore.com>
Date: 3 Jan 91 18:06:59 GMT
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In article <rae.662888801@barney>, rae@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Reid Ellis)
writes:
|> Steve Madere <steve@Pkg.Mcc.COM> writes:
|> >How about a new newsgroup to discuss these submitted class
|> >libraries and code snippets?  One could also post the
|> >code there (or descriptions of it) and it could be archived
|> >to a site on the net.  (Just like comp.sources.ibmpc and
|> >the like).
	
	Some kind soul has already started a directory at
GRAPE.ECS.CLARKSON.EDU: 
	{pub,incoming}/c++ .

|> 
|> How about a real, honest-to-goodness sources group then?  Say
|> comp.sources.c++?  Is C++ portable enough to warrant such a group,
or
|> are platform-dependancies too widespread for it to be useful?
|> 

	I asked (not here) about starting a comp.source.c++ and was told 
	that the "official community" would vote it down. I personally think
	that C++ is too different and (to my perception) more portable than
more
	languages (save Ada :).  We can certainly try.  I'd like to see
	grape.ecs.clarkson.edu still be used for the archiving (if possible)
as
	I have no facilities for doing such archiving. But I am willing to
	help (is this the right word?) in managing the comp.sources.c++. 
	I fear that code put at grape, without other "coverage" will go
unnoticed.
	Can't we at least try??  If the group is a flop, then it is a flop. 
But
	if it's not, then I think we will have "done a good thing!" (Allusion
to
	some strange cartoon that I vaguely remember -- sorry).

	BTW: I've got some stuff that need my immediate attention at work (and
home)
	for a week++, but after that I have a few classes that I'm gonna put
	<fill in place here>.  A Socket class[tree] (for UNIX/BSD only).
	A generic MultiDimensional Array class (w/code sharing).
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