Re: [boost] Re: Workarounded regression tools for MSVC 6

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-04-30 20:56:56

At 08:45 PM 4/30/2003, David Abrahams wrote:

 >Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:
 >
 >> So please don't take it personally, but I'm not going to apply the
 >> patches unless someone comes forward with more rationale for
 >> supporting reporting tool compilations with VC++ 6.0.
 >
 >One of these days you might want to assign the job of producing
 >regression logs for VC6 to someone who has a real stake in that
 >compiler, so you'll have one less thing to test.  They might have a
 >real stake in it among other things because they don't have anything
 >else.

The issue wasn't whether or not to produce regression logs for VC++ 6.0, 
but whether the tools to produce the status reports themselves should be 
buildable with 6.0. Right now they compile OK on most modern compilers, but 
not VC++ 6.0.

--Beman