Re: [boost] [iostreams regressions] patches to fix msvc issues

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-18 01:40:09

David Deakins wrote:

> Since it seems like Jonathan Turkanis is not currently available to work
> on maintaining the iostreams library, perhaps someone else with CVS
> write access might apply the attached jamfile patches related to that
> library to RC_1_34_0 (if the release manager approves) and to HEAD.  The
> description of the patches is below.  These, along with the mentioned
> modification to the bzip2 DEF file, should resolve the remaining
> iostreams regressions.

Thanks for the patch! The patch looks good to me, but I have one
question -- those tests used to pass before, at least for 
some msvc testers. Do you know what made them fail now? Was that
a change in Jamfile (I don't remember making any), or bzlib/zlib
has changed.

"No idea" is fine for an answer, but if you know for sure, it
would be even better ;-)

Thomas,
I think this patch is something we should apply, as otherwise
functionality of iostream library will some somewhat limited
in msvc/(source libz) configuration. What do you think?

- Volodya