Re: [boost] C++ announcements coming tomorrow

Subject: Re: [boost] C++ announcements coming tomorrow
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-11-03 14:58:31

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> I find the idea of a community technical preview surprising, since Microsoft
>> has been repeatedly refusing to fix bugs reported by the community unless
>> you have purchased commercial support.
>
> Have you filed a bug report recently? I filed one this summer and had
> a response the next day.
>
>> It seems they focus on adding new features rather than fixing bugs. While a
>> good marketing strategy for a commercial product, it arguably doesn't work
>> so well with a "community" approach.
>
> Here some lists of bugs fixed:
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2012/06/15/10320846.aspx
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2012/08/10/10338661.aspx

Yes, I have:
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/752402/wrong-code-gen
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/752386/std-atoll-not-found
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/587544/copy-from-linux-file-puts-linux-eols-on-clipboard

MS even stopped accepting feature requests via Connect. A modern UI
style few people wanted was also considered more important then other
IDE stuff.

They do fix some things though, like
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/621653/including-stdint-after-intsafe-generates-warnings

-- 
Olaf