[boost] Re: Metaprogramming VC++ - more of Loki ported

From: John Maddock (John_Maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-12-01 06:42:24

>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.)

There are very few standards compliant fixes in VC7 - VC7.1 is said to be
more or less fully compliant but the release date is likely to be at least
a year away from what I've heard :-(

- John Maddock
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/john_maddock/