Re: [boost] ... broken with clang

Subject: Re: [boost] ... broken with clang
From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-12-20 12:31:57

On Dec 20, 2011, at 9:25 AM, Francois Duranleau wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Marshall Clow <mclow.lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> On Dec 20, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Francois Duranleau wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Christopher Jefferson
>>> <chris_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> The most important thing is probably for people to run the boost regression tester with the compiler of their preference, and file bugs when things break. It's not hard to do, but it is a fairly high time investment unfortunately.
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.boost.org/development/running_regression_tests.html
>>> 
>>> Granted. However, what decides what compilers are supported by Boost
>>> libraries?
>> 
>> Availability of testing resources.
>> 
>> If someone is willing to run the Boost Tests using Clang on Windows (every day, and report the results), then that will go a long way to making it a supported configuration.
>> 
>> See http://www.boost.org/development/running_regression_tests.html for a description of how to do this.
> 
> Why on Windows specifically? Nowhere in the link above does it mandate
> having to run the tests on Windows.

Maybe I misunderstood your question.
I thought that you were asking about Boost supporting clang on Windows.
To do that, we should really be testing that configuration.

-- Marshall

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