Re: [boost] Support for legacy compilers [was: limited form of type deduction]

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-16 07:02:30

At 01:06 AM 10/16/2003, Joel de Guzman wrote:
 >...
 >Well, we all know that porting to VC6 is not a trivial task, especially 
for
 >template-heavy code such as Spirit. If the author of a particular module
 >has no access to VC6 and Borland, usually the task of porting falls on 
me.
 >Hartmut and the others are also very helpful, but there is no particular
 >individual responsible for maintaining compatibility with each compiler. 
In
 >a perfect world, we'll all be coding in pure ISO C++ and all is well. But
 >in reality, even a seemingly simple patch can wreak havoc that breaks the
 >whole code base.
 >
 >We (Spirit developers) discussed this problem before. One solution, which 

 >is not available to us right now, is to have a site where we can test
 >compilers, a boost-compiler-farm, if you will. The compiler farm at
 >SourceForge is not
 >a solution because it targets only *nix platforms. So, I am asking now, 
how
 >is it possible to have a boost compiler farm, for boost developers, that
 >can target at least *nix and windows compilers?

We need a volunteer with an always on Internet connection and a bunch of 
Windows compilers. Ditto for a *nix volunteer.

--Beman