[Boost-testing] Re: 'required toolsets'

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-13 13:53:08

Jeff Garland wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:47:07 -0600, Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote
>
>> That's because the page only lists failures for "required" toolsets -
>> - the ones that we (Boost developers) commit to keep in accordance
>> with "no regression" rule. The toolsets are enumerated in
>> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/boost/boost/status/explicit-
>> failures-markup.xml and are highlighted as bold on the library and
>> summary report pages.
>
> That's interesting -- was there a discussion I missed about the
> 'required set' of compilers / standard libraries?   Somehow I was
> under the impression that each library author was still pretty much
> deciding what to do with these. If I'm reading the table correctly
> this mean that we've agreed that VC6 is going to be dropped?

It looks to me like VC6 (a.k.a. msvc) is still there.

BTW, VC6 is now fully supported by the iostreams library. A nice side-effect of
porting to VC6 was that I was able to clean up a lot of code.

Jonathan