Re: [boost] [safe_numerics] Formal review starts today

Subject: Re: [boost] [safe_numerics] Formal review starts today
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-03-11 14:59:11

AMDG

On 03/11/2017 07:27 AM, Paul A. Bristow via Boost wrote:
>
> John Maddock has since explained why nothing I tried worked.  I'm a bit shocked that it hasn't been tested on MSVC.  My acceptance
> was on the assumption that it would work.  It really must be portable over recent GCC, Clang and MSVC at the very minimum.
> 
> I suggest that we should pause the review until you adopt John's patches and reissue the review code and then restart the review.
> 
> It'll be a bit poor to accept the library until a few people confirm it's working on MSVC.
> 

  VC2017 (which is the minimum required to build the library,
even with patches) wasn't released until halfway through
the review.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe