Re: [boost] Fresh Win32 regression test

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-12-18 13:59:42

Paul,

If you have the library and would like to contribute regression results,
we'd be glad to have them. If you'd like to petition Dinkumware for copies
of their library for the moderators, I'm sure that would be even better.

-Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul A. Bristow" <boost_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 5:00 PM
Subject: RE: [boost] Fresh Win32 regression test

> I note that we do not seem to be testing MSVC6 with the Dinkumware 3.08
STL.
>
> Anyone using MSVC who is NOT using this is missing a major trick, IMHO,
for
> a very modest marginal cost, and complexity.
>
> There are many, many corrections/improvements to the version released with
> MSVC including all SPs. I have found several things which fail to compile
> with the MS release (which is DInkumware 2.something), but which do
compile
> with newer STL code.
>
> This code, with further corrections, will of course be released with MS
> version 7.
>
> Could we do this in future perhaps?  A review copy might be forthcoming?
>
> Paul
>