[Bug 976793] Review Request: libLunchbox - C++ library for multi-threaded programming

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976793



--- Comment #11 from Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad@xxxxxxxxxx> ---
(In reply to Jonathan Wakely from comment #8)
> I wondered why the upstream still has its own thread library, instead of
> using std::thread / boost::thread etc.
> 
> And indeed the upstream API docs say the Lunchbox classes are deprecated.

IIRC it's there mainly for the 'bino' [1] from the rpmfusion [2], which can use
'Equalizer', which IIRC uses 'Lunchbox', from the upstream docs [3]:

> Lunchbox is a C++ library for multi-threaded programming, providing OS
> abstraction, utility classes and high-performance primitives, such as atomic
> variables, spin locks and lock-free containers. It is used as a base library
> for Collage and Equalizer. 

Thus I think this package is still useful.

[1] http://bino3d.org/
[2]
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/22/Everything/x86_64/os/bino-1.4.4-6.fc22.x86_64.rpm
[3] http://www.equalizergraphics.com/

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