Re: [boost] Review request: Require compiler support for partial template specialization.

Subject: Re: [boost] Review request: Require compiler support for partial template specialization.
From: Stephen Kelly (steveire_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-10-01 10:39:45

On 10/01/2013 04:14 PM, Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> On 01/10/13 14:49, Stephen Kelly wrote:
>
>> I don't understand even the motivation for Mathias' question.
>>
>> It seems to be a restatement of what I wrote in the commit message of
>> the commit I posted, with an added 'basically', and a mistake (5.3
>> instead of 5.4, which is what I wrote in my commit message).
>>
>> I don't know if he simply did not read my commit message at all. If he
>> did, he also missed this:
>
> My bad, I went through the diff and looked at what it changed, but
> didn't see the commit message at the top.

Yes, that's unfortunate. It caused a lot of confusion and mails which
are best avoided, distracting attention away from the actual point of
the email.

>
> Anyway I don't think dropping those compilers is a problem.
> It would be interesting to see how much of Boost can be simplified by
> removing BOOST_NO_TEMPLATE_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION everywhere.

Now that there's no confusion anymore (I hope), let's see if anyone else
has anything to say too.

Thanks,

Steve.