Re: [1.75 release] Merging 'develop' to 'master' for Embarcadero fix

From: Glen Fernandes (glen.fernandes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-11-06 15:33:02

On Friday, November 6, 2020, Edward Diener via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

>
> There has been no effort to merge the 'develop' branch of 'random' into
> 'master' and now the deadline for doing so has passed, at least for the
> beta release. Can anyone look into doing this and maintaining the 'random'
> library, at least for the future ? It is disappointing to me that my simple
> fix which would allow the Embarcadero C++ clang-based compiler to use Boost
> random will not get in the upcoming release, because it is the only Boost
> library of which I know for which my fixes to allow the Embarcadero C++
> clang-based compilers to work properly has not been applied for the 1.75
> release.
>
>
If someone is willing to contribute an Embarcadero C++ clang-based tester
to the Boost regression test matrix, it would probably make it easier for
maintainers to support this compiler going forward.

Glen