Re: [boost] Boost.Atomic, pushing forward and a little request for help

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.Atomic, pushing forward and a little request for help
From: Jim Bell (Jim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-02 12:13:55

On 1:59 PM, Edward Diener wrote:
> On 8/1/2011 4:56 PM, Helge Bahmann wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> ....
>>
>> The big sore point is still support for the various flavours of VC -- 
>> I know
>> that there are (especially older) versions for which it is not 
>> working, but I
>> am lacking test systems, so if you are affected please let me know 
>> and I will
>> do my best to resolve the issues.
>
> My own point of view when doing new development for VC++ and Boost is 
> that it is simply not worth worrying about versions that are older 
> than VC++ 8 ( VS2005 ). Others may disagree, but I have run into 
> enough compiler bugs in the last three releases to not have to worry 
> about any problems which might occur in releases before those. So my 
> opinion is not to worry unduly about any releases prior to VC++ 8 for 
> whatever you do in your development of a new library unless you are 
> pretty sure that a fix for VC++ 7 or VC++ 7.1 is pretty trivial ( I 
> don't even consider VC++ 6 worth discussing ).

If it's just a matter of doing an SVN update, running bjam, and 
e-mailing you the results, I can help a little (VS2005/MSVC8). Shoot me 
an e-mail off list (I don't read this list often enough).