Re: [boost] Boost and exceptions

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost and exceptions
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-06-22 02:48:06

On 22 June 2012 04:39, Emil Dotchevski <emildotchevski_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> In its initial release (1.36), Boost Exception did not support
> BOOST_NO_RTTI configurations, which seemed reasonable because most
> compilers require RTTI for exception handling. The workaround was to
> #define BOOST_EXCEPTION_DISABLE under BOOST_NO_RTTI. A permanent fix was
> committed to trunk two weeks later, and released with 1.37.

If we actually want to improve the process, that suggests to me that
it'd be useful to have at least one tester running with rtti disabled
(and perhaps another with exceptions disabled) and that we might want
to reconsider point releases, which is hopefully easier with a
modularised git setup.