Re: [Boost-users] RTTI for VC 6

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-15 05:42:00

you're being unreasonable.
some guy came in here with a KNOWN poor and out of date compiler and dumps 
on the warning messages he gets and implies that the folks a boost 
should/could do something about it (Microsoft HAS done something about it, 
they're issued TWO releases since then.....why hasn't the OP updated??)
.
I'm on record here as saying we should save the world a fortune in time and 
quit supporting such a poor compiler. (now THAT is flame bait, and I don't 
give a <insert favorite expletive>.... Microsoft VC++6.0 is NOT a 
reasonable compiler..... within months of it's release, the ISO standard 
was voted (of course they didn't conform, I believe that any rational 
person looking at ALL the behavior of Microsoft back in 1997-1998 can ONLY 
come to the conclusion that they were trying to "kill" C++).  Microsoft 
STILL has NOT updated the STL that they ship with VC++6.0...do you want me 
to go on?)

In my opinion, the only reason that boost hasn't officially told everyone 
that VC++6.0 is no longer supported is because Dave Abrahams apparently has 
a customer that "cannot update".  It costs a small fortune to try to make 
everything work with VC++6.0 and it is NOT worth the effort).

At Sunday 2004-08-15 02:28, you wrote:
>To put it bluntly, comments such as this accomplish nothing except dump
>emotions at the expense of others.
>
>In the Netbeans mailing list, there are a few people that enjoy dumping on
>Windows in the manner that people dump on VC here.
>
>Please, please will someone please tell these people that comments such as
>this don't accomplish anything useful for Boost? Or am I being unreasonable?
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Victor A. Wagner Jr." <vawjr_at_[hidden]>
>To: <boost-users_at_[hidden]>
>Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 12:40 AM
>Subject: Re: [Boost-users] RTTI for VC 6
>
>
> > to put it bluntly, it's not boost, it VC++6.0
> > (the plethora of errors)
> > upgrading would save you and a lot of others a lot of problems
>
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