Важное заявление от команды разработчиков NGPT!

Команда разработчиков проекта NGPT объявила об изменении пути разработки своего проекта. Теперь все свои усилия команда разработчиков NGPT сконцентрируют на другом проекте - NPTL (http://people.redhat.com/drepper/nptl...), которая уже является частью экспериментального ядра. Также они заявили, что никаких нововведений в проект NGPT осуществляться не будет и что они, теперь, переходят чисто только на поддержку своего проекта. По их словам, это вызвано тем, что они не хотят раскола сообщества при выборе того или иного проекта.

Заявление датировано 14 мартом.

;-) Инглиш (ориджинал) вершн:

On behalf of the NGPT team, we would like to announce a change in direction
for the Next Generation POSIX Threading (NGPT) project.

As many of you may know by now, a new POSIX threading library NPTL
(http://people.redhat.com/drepper/nptl...) is now available for Linux
and we don't want to split the community to choose one over the other.
The Linux 2.5 kernel has added many new features in the areas of Scheduler,
POSIX signal handling, clone() improvements and futexes that make highly
scalable and performing threads a more viable solution in Linux.
With this in mind, we have decided to stop adding new functionality to the
NGPT pThread library and will go in pure support mode. We will provide full
support for the existing NGPT releases and to those who have incorporated NGPT
in their current releases, and work to bring solutions for other threading
requirements to the NPTL community for discussion and dispositioning.
Currently, using Glibc-2.2.x, NGPT can be used as Linuxthreads replacement
library. However, NGPT will not be supported under Glibc-2.3.

Our original goal was to make threading in Linux more scalable and POSIX
compliant, and it seems clear that NPTL has addressed such issues quite well.
We will continue focus and working in the direction of improving overall
threading performance in Linux.

In summary, we feel that this decision is the best way to support the community
for the long term. We would also like to participate to improve threads
scalability and POSIX compliance for threading package in Linux. If anyone has
any questions or concerns about this decision, please email us or the NGPT
mailing list at pthreads-devel@www-124.ibm.com.
We will be happy to answer any questions or discuss these changes in more
detail.

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