Re: [boost] [1.39.0] Ready for beta?

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.39.0] Ready for beta?
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-29 12:21:00

on Fri Apr 24 2009, "Robert Ramey" <ramey-AT-rrsd.com> wrote:

> troy d. straszheim wrote:
>> Beman Dawes wrote:
>>
>>> Are there any known showstoppers?
>>>
>>
>> Not a showstopper, but here's a patch to stop spirit warnings in
>> serialization:
>>
>> http://sodium.resophonic.com/git/boost_cookbook/plain/serialization.patch
>>
>> I'll commit if you like.
>
> Sometime ago I included changes like this and had a few problems.  In
> particular, Borland serialization will only build with the 1.6x version
> of spirit.  If one makes these changes then the library won't build
> at least for borland.  I don't know which if any other compilers are 
> affected.
> I had some other problems with this but was unable to convince anyone
> that there was any real problem so I just backed out the changes
> and lived with warning.

Are we still supporting Borland?  If so, can you use conditional
compilation to suppress the error on the other compilers?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
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