[boost] Libraries supporting compilers

From: Edward Diener (eddielee_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-08 18:31:21

 From this end users point of view, Boost needs a standard and easy to 
find way of specifying for any future release which compilers are 
supported by each library. The current way of determining this, by 
having to interpret regression tests, when and if they are run by a 
different people against particular libraries using particular 
compilers, seems very poor as a method of creating such information. 
Furthermore while some libraries may mention, to some extent in their 
documentation, what compilers they support in general, many say nothing 
in this regard, and often such information changes between releases.

Please understand I am speaking from the end-users point of view. An 
end-user using a particular compiler release wants to be able to find 
out, fairly quickly, whether that release in a particular Boost release 
which the end-user is using is supported by a particular library. I urge 
Boost to set up a means by which the end-users expectations of easily 
finding this information will be met without the hit-and-miss 
examination of multiple regression tests or the reliance of such 
information somewhere in the documentation for a particular library.