Re: [boost] [1.44] Beta progress?

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.44] Beta progress?
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-22 00:54:48

Eric Niebler wrote:
> On 7/21/2010 7:46 PM, Robert Ramey wrote:
>> Robert Ramey wrote:
>>> Eric Niebler wrote:
>>
>>>> So, does your fix require users to change their archive classes or
>>>> not?
>>
>> I forgot to answer this.
>>
>> Users of the archives included with the library shouldn't have
>> to change a thing.
>>
>> Users who make their own archive classes (like mpi) might
>> have to make a minor change.
>
> Thank you. So the answers I posited to Ryan's questions were correct
> AFAICT.
>
> Regarding the minor change that users may have to make to their own
> archive classes, will the fact that a change needs to be made be
> flagged  at compile time? Is there anything you can do to make faulty 
> archive
> classes fail to compile?

The change manifests itself as a failure to compile.

Robert Ramey