Re: [boost] One step forward.. Four steps back. Was: [random] Update for better TR1 compliance

From: Doug Gregor (dgregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-20 14:42:44

Jonathan,

Please revert these changes to use Boost.Random. We cannot afford such 
changes at this time in the release cycle. As it is, the iostreams has 
a huge number of failures on many platforms. We need to fix those 
failures, soon, and not introduce any more of them.

On May 20, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Rene Rivera wrote:

> Rene Rivera wrote:
>> John Maddock wrote:
>>> Footnote: strictly speaking these changes which introduce new 
>>> features should not have been introduced at this time (right before 
>>> release).
>> Especially changes known ahead of time to cause regressions.
>
> Well this is really aggravating.. Here I spend a few thousand dollars, 
> in my time, getting tests to work for the current code with the 
> CodeWarrior compilers. And the random changes, really new features, 
> break *four* already passing libraries for CW-8.3. (don't know about 
> the other versions as I didn't keep track)
>
> Please.. I implore.. Fix problems.. Don't create them :-(

        Doug Gregor
        1.33.0 Release Manager