Re: Overloading __index and __newindex

On 2/13/2012 11:33 AM, Ryan Pavlik wrote:
> Personally, I am OK with the current status of the project and would 
> not consider it abandonware - I work on it quite frequently. It would 
> be nice to get some communication going for perhaps an eventual future 
> release, but until then, unless you need a version number prettier 
> than "git describe" can give you, I'd say just pick an updated fork 
> and use it. Mine has been substantially cleaned up and improved 
> (support for SFINAE/boost::enable_if for native converters, applied 
> suggestions of include-what-you-use to decrease build time, 
> cmake-based build system that includes the tests, etc.) and is being 
> used in production currently.  I've even got the documentation 
> automatically building and uploading.
>
> Ryan
It's not about whether you "need a version number." It's about having an 
actual project, rather than a bunch of disparate code running around. 
You don't see SWIG or other projects operate like that, with no real 
notion of version or functioning code. The reason why is because someone 
actually owns the project and makes regular releases of it.

Saying "pick an updated fork and use it" is basically saying, "Luabind 
is abandoned." That's what an abandoned project looks like: it's just 
forks, whatever some random people look at and poke at. If nobody's 
willing to stand behind it by naming it, giving it a real version, and 
making a distribution (and no: downloading a Git repo is not a 
distribution), then it's a dead project.

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