Re: [boost] Re: Boost to the rescue

From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-20 03:50:07

Martin Slater wrote:
> 
>>
>> P.S.   It still costs us all money to try to support
> 
> 
> 
> Oh and at no point did I say that I think boost should support vc6, 
> regardless of that fact that it costs users (or us testers) nothing to 
> support it except maybe a few more seconds to parse a couple of  #def's 
> or download a fraction more code. It costs the implementers time and 
> that is there own personal choice at the end of the day; not yours, mine 
> or anyone elses.

That's not correct. In fact, supporting VC6 or gcc 2 costs a lot of CPU 
time for the testers. It's not only the additional toolsets to run tests 
for (which could be considered a personal choice of the tester); more 
importantly, it's the frequency of changes to the source code in order 
to make modern code work for a bunch of broken compilers. These changes 
trigger rebuilds for *all* toolsets.

Regards,
m