RE: [boost] date_time, lexical_cast and MSVC 7.0

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-24 08:02:58

> >From: "Philip Miller" <pwmiller_at_[hidden]>
> 
> > Now, the reason for my posting.  I am using MSVC 7.0 and am unable to
> > compile the date_time library tests.  Compiling time_parsing.hpp gives
> > me an error in lexical_cast, where there is no output operator for the
> > lexical_cast<unsigned short> compiled for the function
> > parse_delimited_time_duration.    But the test regression results for
> > date_time indicates that all tests pass for MSVC 7.0.  What am I doing
> > wrong?
> 
> It could be a couple of things going wrong. First, there were some problems
> with lexical_cast that were discovered after 1.30 was shipped, so they are
> fixed in the CVS, but not in the file release. Unless you've done it, I
> suggest getting the latest file from the CVS.

I seem to recall someone else running across this and fixing it with
the lexical_cast upgrade.  Unfortunately, I can't find this in the 
archive at the moment...

If this turns out to be the case, I wonder if we should consider
releasing 1.30.1 with the fixed lexical_cast?

Jeff