Re: Metaprogramming VC++ - more of Loki ported

From: williamkempf_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-11-30 10:01:17

--- In boost_at_y..., "Andrei Alexandrescu" <andrewalex_at_h...> wrote:
> Great stuff, Mat.
> 
> > 3. Solicit help in porting more of Loki and other metaprogramming
> >    libraries. Is anyone else interested in helping to bring these
> >    libraries to VC?
> 
> You may want to get in touch with Jonathan H Lundquist. He ported 
the whole
> Loki to MSVC 6, something that I didn't even think possible, and 
MSVC
> portability would be very important in the process of proposing 
Loki to
> boost.

I question the wisdom, however, of putting much effort into porting 
to VC++ 6.  VC++ 7 will be released in about 3 months and many of the 
work arounds needed for 6 will no longer be needed since 7 is more 
compliant and has a LOT fewer bugs.  There's still going to need to 
be some work arounds with 7, to be sure, but porting should be much 
easier.  Maybe the effort should be on porting to the 7 beta for 
now?  (And I mean this for documenting how to port any library as 
well as for attempts to port Loki.)

Bill Kempf