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- I am pleasantly surprised. And, unlike in the UK, it's not
just for Windows.
At work, Roguewave have finally admitted that it wasn't
fair to tell us to patch our compiler to fix one problem
with
their product, and then to refuse to support their product
with that compiler patch when we find another problem. Not
that they're in much […]

Xerces-C++ mailing list has finally paid off with a response
from a maintainer and a vote that's underway. The issue?
Putting the include files under prefix/include/xercesc
instead of prefix/include. Such a minor thing has taken a
ridiculous amount of effort. I believe that it's partly due
to the fact that there's not 1 or 2 maintainers, but a set
of many […]

C++ reference-counting smart pointers: Of course you just
copy a
pointer to a counter in the copy constructors. And, by
adding an allocator type to the template specification, it
can even be used to wrap C types that have special
allocation and deallocation functions, without repetition of
code in the derived classes. This has been on my TODO list
for so long […]

Roguewave's DBTools.h++ library because the only version
that compiles is the one that prevents use of the C++
Standard Library in the same application. They have a new
version that will work, but they've changed the license so
that they charge for deployment. It really seems
that Roguewave is dying and is just tryingt to shaft its
locked-in customers for as […]