[boost] [Graph] What to do about broken compilers?

From: Doug Gregor (dgregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-06-27 14:03:15

The graph library has always been in a "barely usable" support on 
certain compilers (Borland <= 5.6.4 and MSVC 6.0, in particular). The 
regression tests have always been a mess---Boost 1.31.0 has very few 
passes for these compilers, and 1.32.0 isn't looking any better. 
However, the library is somewhat usable, if you stick to a very small 
subset and don't mind working around INTERNAL COMPILER ERRORs all of 
the time. What to do?

I'm marking the library "unusable" on both compilers, so that we can 
concentrate our efforts on those compilers that might actually work. 
Complain loudly, quickly, and preferably with patches if you think this 
is the wrong approach.

        Doug