Douglas Gregor <doug.gregor@gmail.com> writes:
Again I have to ask: what does it mean for Boost to support (or not) a particular compiler?
In my opinion, it means:
1) We have consistent testing resources verifying the status of Boost on that compiler, e.g., the nightly regression tests that OSL is running for GCC 2.95.3 2) The platform is marked as "required" in the explicit-markup- failures.xml file, so tests for that library need to either run correctly, marked unusable, or marked as an expected failure. 3) The platform will be listed as "Supported" for releases (see the bottom of the main Boost page).
Actually, #1 and #2 are the criteria I used for creating the list of supported compilers, which is new as of the 1.33.x series.
Maybe we ought to be instituting a firmer notion of what "supported" means.
Does the above qualify?
Yeah, super! How about making up a webpage so posterity remembers it? -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com