[macstl-dev] Re: macstl 0.2 is finally here! whew...

[Paul Baxter]

Glen,

I want to congratulate you on your work. Its been evident from your posts on 
the altivec list that you love this stuff and are very good with it.

Any chance of outlining future plans for MacSTL beyond the yellow, red/green 
blocks in vec-common-interface? It may help those of us considering the 
redistributable license. Its quite a commitment (particularly if just 
wanting to use this on Intel/AMD) without knowing a very broad outline of 
what is going to be added over the course of the next year. $499 for rights 
to use in my commercial code was fine as a disposable 'try it out' price, 
$2499 was a bit of a surprise. (though I understand the need to eat as well 
:-)

I've seen the coloured feature boxes, but it doesn't make clear whether for 
instance you may devote more effort to bringing the x86 platform intrinsics 
onto a par with the altivec ones. For instance I am interested in 
implementation of complex numbers of the x86 platform and despite my 
realisation the 'Mac'STL may never truly be as well supported on x86 as on 
the PowerPC, I would be interested to know your take on things.

On a separate note, perhaps you could explain if your code might be used 
with something like GPL'ed code. Is your open source code amenable to being 
published within a GPL'd context (given GPL's 'viral' nature) or is it 
limited to open source that only supports your reciprocal license?

Regards
I