Re: [boost] Should we still be testing GCC 2.95.3?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-10 14:38:07

Edward Diener <eddielee_at_[hidden]> writes:

> This shows to me, unfortunately, that Borland is still not serious about 
> fixing compiler bugs despite all of the promotion over the latest 
> release of their product, in which they have upgraded the user interface 
> to the IDE significantly from all reports. I even mentioned on their NGs 
> that one of the reasons that fixing these bugs is so important is that 
> many of the Boost developers no longer want to support the compiler in 
> their implementations, via workarounds, if Borland is not willing to fix 
> their bugs. Admittedly Borland employees themselves rarely respond on 
> their NGs, but the responses to their not fixing these bugs after so 
> many years appeared to be a big yawn from other developers and TeamB 
> supporters on those same NGs. So while I have always been a supporter of 
> Borland in the past I do not see that they are serious about fixing 
> their compiler bugs, or even consider it important to do so.

Maybe we should move on, then.  At this point they may need us more
than we need them.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com