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Does anyone knows what's up with Boost GIL by Adobe? It's not hosted here, but it's on their website: https://stlab.adobe.com/gil/ https://stlab.adobe.com/gil/

• exikyut 9y ago
  From 5 minutes of googling it looks to me like it's been collectively quietly moved on from, but that it's not broken. Put it this way: it's in Boost. Boost is an established standard. If a library in Boost suddenly stopped working because of language changes, that would produce some kind of response. In GIL's case, it looks like may be a reasonable number of quiet users of GIL, so any such "okay, we need to do something about this" might be met with a collective "wait, hold up, let's fix it." Note I said might. I honestly have no idea. What I did was search for "adobe gil" but date-restricted the search to after 2007: https://www.google.com/search?q=adobe+gil&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A2008%2Ccd_max%3A https://www.google.com/search?q=adobe+gil&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_m... That gave me http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/gil-What-is-the-status-of-the-Gil-extension-numeric-td4643192.html http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/gil-What-is-the-status-of... - from 2010 https://code.google.com/archive/p/gil-contributions/source/default/commits https://code.google.com/archive/p/gil-contributions/source/d...: - most recent commit 2013 - most recent downloadable file 2010 - one export to github, https://github.com/chyh1990/gil-contributions/commits/master https://github.com/chyh1990/gil-contributions/commits/master, that hasn't made any changes (github commit list === google code commit list) - result http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/libs/gil/test/image_io.cpp http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/libs/gil/test/image_io.... says to look at http://opensource.adobe.com/gil http://opensource.adobe.com/gil, this redirects to https://sourceforge.net/adobe/wiki/Home/ https://sourceforge.net/adobe/wiki/Home/. Jumping manually to https://sourceforge.net/adobe/wiki/Projects/ https://sourceforge.net/adobe/wiki/Projects/ leads me to https://sourceforge.net/adobe/genimglib/home/Home/ https://sourceforge.net/adobe/genimglib/home/Home/, which shows updates from 2007. BUT. I tried refining my google search to `adobe "gil"`, including the quotes. The first result? https://github.com/boostorg/gil https://github.com/boostorg/gil And then... https://github.com/boostorg/gil/commits/develop https://github.com/boostorg/gil/commits/develop shows commits from last month. Objectively speaking it's not, say, React. There were a bunch of commits in 2013-14. The project only has 15 stars, 7 watches and 20 forks, but - https://github.com/boostorg/gil/graphs/contributors https://github.com/boostorg/gil/graphs/contributors shows a total code churn of 214,889 added lines, 99388 removed lines (data without context - could be due to version control shuffling) between about 15 committers (I didn't count them) - https://github.com/boostorg/gil/pulse https://github.com/boostorg/gil/pulse shows... not much, because I can only show 1 month max :( - Of the 4 issues, none have been closed, but there is extensive discussion between maintainers on one of them (on what looks like a setup issue). I don't know what to make of this repo, here's hoping if you poke it you'll get a nice result. :P
  • geokon 9y ago
    I guess it's still on life support - but the real question is: Does Adobe still use it internally?