Re: [boost] [1.32 release] Regressions clean-up

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-14 03:25:54

Jeff Garland writes:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 03:18:38 -0500, Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote
>> According to http://tinyurl.com/25ar3, the following libraries appear
>> to be in a particularly untidy state:
>> 
>> - Date/time, http://tinyurl.com/563b7
>
> We have been and will continue to work this.  However, we added wstream and
> other features (awhile ago now) which are simply not supported in many
> compilers.  So we will just be marking these failed.

OK, sounds good.

> In addition, we have stopped 'covering up' for bad compilers / standard
> libraries.  In the past we had macros that would swap out some tests on VC6
> and other compilers to make the tests look better.  We've now removed these
> and are letting these tests fail.  So again we need to mark more tests as
> failing.  I believe this will help people better understand the limits of
> using old compilers, etc...

Sure. Looking forward towards the marked-up picture.

>
> As for the boost book conversion -- all the xml is all checked in.  I just
> need to do the changes in the top level.  Probably later today.

Excellent. Thanks for the update!

-- 
Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering