Re: [boost] Should we provide hot fixes?

From: Peter Bartlett (pete_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-27 12:25:45

Quoting Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]>:

> [Boost.Exception]
> In fact, there was no acknowedgement
> that this was even an error. and no promise to fix it. I got the
> feeling that the author thought this to be perfectly legitimate
> given the new superior features (which are required by current
> users) and that I should plan for future episodes of this nature.

What Emil actually wrote was:

Robert Ramey wrote:
>> Emil Dotchevski wrote:
>>> The semantics of boost::throw_exception have not changed.
>>
>> That's where we differ.  It seems to me that on certain platforms
>> things won't work as they had before.
>
> If that's true, it's a bug and I'll fix it.
>
> Emil Dotchevski

(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/178970)