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Bug 45276

Summary: Req: ebuild for state threads
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Siuchung Cheung (Clement) <clement.cc>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: squinky86
Priority: Normal Keywords: EBUILD
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://state-threads.sourceforge.net/
Whiteboard: sunrise suggested
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: st-1.4.ebuild

Description Siuchung Cheung (Clement) 2004-03-21 05:55:29 UTC
A threading library like Pth. But designed (and optimized) for internet applications. They took out features that internet applications won't need to make it faster. So they don't have some of the features in Pth. But it's simple and fast.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Siuchung Cheung (Clement) 2004-03-21 19:33:16 UTC
Created attachment 27770 [details]
st-1.4.ebuild

First attempt in an ebuild for state threads.

Description from st.spec:
The State Threads library has an interface similar to POSIX threads.

However, the threads are actually all run in-process. This type of
threading allows for controlled schedualing points. It is highly useful
for designing robust and extremely scalable internet applications since
there is no resource contention and locking is generally unnecessary.

It can be combined with traditional threading or multiple process
parallelism to take advantage of multiple processors.

See: <http://state-threads.sourceforge.net/docs/st.html> for further
information about how state threads improve performance.
Comment 2 Siuchung Cheung (Clement) 2004-03-21 19:37:05 UTC
I've tried to be platform independent in the script. It is supposed work for platforms other than x86 (platforms that state threads actually supports). But I've never tried it on any platform other than x86.
Comment 3 Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-03-20 22:00:00 UTC
Better yet, I'll send it *your* way. :)
Comment 4 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2008-12-29 18:53:37 UTC
(this is an automated message based on filtering criteria that matched this bug)

Hello, The Gentoo Team would like to firstly thank you for your ebuild
submission. We also apologize for not being able to accomendate you on a timely
manor. There are simply too many new packages.

Allow me to use this opportunity to introduce you to Gentoo Sunrise. The sunrise
overlay[1] is a overlay for Gentoo which we allow trusted users to commit to and
all users can have ebuilds reviewed by Gentoo devs for entry into the overlay.
So, the sunrise team is suggesting that you look into this and submit your
ebuild to the overlay where even *you* can commit to. =)

Because this is a mass message, we are also asking you to be patient with us. We
anticipate a large number of requests in a short time. 

Thanks,
On behalf of the Gentoo Sunrise Team,
Jeremy.

[1]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/sunrise/
[2]: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/wiki/SunriseFaq