[boost] Re: Win32 regressions

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-01 12:11:31

Guillaume Melquiond <guillaume.melquiond_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Le lun 01/03/2004 à 16:58, Beman Dawes a écrit :
>
>> Looking at the results, there is lots of good news. Tests now passing, 
>> warnings removed, etc. But there are also regressions in a number of 
>> libraries:
>
>>     Interval - Borland, VC++ 6.0, and VC++ 7.0 regressions.
>
> I already reported these failures to the list two weeks ago so that
> anybody interested could take a look. There were no answer so the
> library has been marked as unusable with these compilers in the
> status/explicit-failures-markup.xml. It doesn't appear in your
> regression logs; but in Metacomm's summaries it appears clearly.
>
>> Hopefully the developers will take a look at these soon so the regressions 
>> don't hang around until the next release.
>
> I don't intend to fix them. The library doesn't use any complex C++
> construction (even Borland 5.5 is able to compile it)

Read above again.  Borland is listed as failing.

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Dave Abrahams
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