Re: [boost] Re: Win32 regr test - Borland, Intel, updates

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-12-20 13:27:38

At 12:34 PM 12/20/2002, Alisdair Meredith wrote:

 >Beman Dawes wrote:
 >
 >> Pavel Vozenilek mentioned in private email that Borland had a C++ 
Builder
 >> Update 3 at
 >ftp://ftp.borland.com/pub/bcppbuilder/devsupport/patches/bcpp6/
 >>
 >> After I had downloaded and installed the update, I found they had never
 >> announced it publicly. But it is available on a public ftp server, so I
 >> guess that counts.
 >>
 >> Compiler version (__BORLANDC__) went to 0x0562.
 >
 >That patch has not been publically released yet, and has been the
 >subject of some debate in the borland newsgroups.
 >
 >Last I heard it was a 'public beta' although the announcement for this
 >has not been released either.  Whether or not this is the 'final' beta
 >or simply an internal test of the build system when it is ready is
 >uncertain.
 >
 >It is certainly not supported by borland, although it seems quite a few
 >people a running it now.
 >
 >I would recommed running the boost tests with only the second patch
 >though, as that is the 'official' borland version.

Yes, our usual policy is not to test with betas. I would never have applied 
it if I had known it was a beta.

I'll reinstall the original and apply update 2.

--Beman