[boost] Re: 1.31.0 regressions

From: Russell Hind (rhind_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-18 03:22:29

David Abrahams wrote:
> 
> Might be a good idea.  I think I'd like to continue to support vc6 at
> least on the 1.31.x branch, particularly because last-minute changes
> in the graph library broke Boost.Python on vc6 for 1.31.0
> 
> What would we do about Borland, which is in some ways more broken than
> vc6?  They don't ship a compiler I wouldn't consider broken.  

Well, I only use bcc32 and for now, I'm happy to stick with 1.30.2. 
I'll back port any new features I need myself (mainly from 
filesystem/thread if any attractive features come in) and I may move to 
1.31.0 but I've run into other problems using this at the moment so I 
can only speak for myself about bcc32, but as spirit has already dropped 
support for bcc32 in 1.31.0 (spirit-1.8 IIRC) then it means boost can't 
be used 'out-of-the-box' anyway, and requires still having 1.30.2 around 
anyway.

But the new compiler is in preview (bccx 6.0) and already works with 
quite a bit of boost (thanks to John Maddock) and there hasn't been a 
word yet, but it has been in preview for about 5 months now and the talk 
was of the next version of CBX (hopefully with the final product int) 
due 2-3 quarter this year, so we may be able to get Borland support back 
  in the not too distant future (without all the work-arounds currently 
needed).

Thanks

Russell