Re: [boost] [1.34] [showstopper] autolink doesn't work when not specifyingtoolset version

From: Stefan Seefeld (seefeld_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-08 07:25:17

John Maddock wrote:
> Vladimir Prus wrote:
>> Assuming the concrete proposal is:
>>
>> Whenever no explicit version of msvc is provided,
>> run compiler, extract version from the output, and
>> use that.
>>
>> and I'm asked to implement that in code, it would require
>> access to all versions of msvc for which that behaviour
>> is desired, plus a couple of days.
> 
> Personally, I'd rather we take a few days to fix this, rather than ship "as 
> is".

Why didn't this show up earlier ? What prevents any such fix to introduce a
new series of regressions, delaying the release even further ?
This is really depressing... :-(

Regards,
                Stefan

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