[Boost-users] Re: Compilers compliance and boost.

From: Markus Schöpflin (markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-20 10:16:43

Mauricio Gomes wrote:

> It gives us a good view of compilers conformance (using boost libraries  
> as test cases).

Not necessarily. It simply highlights the compilers/platforms/libraries for 
which the most workarounds are present in boost. This could either mean 
that it (= compiler/platform/librarie) is especially broken or it could 
mean that especially much effort has been put into boost to support it.

But when you combine this list with the regression status table you could 
end up with a statement concerning the conformance of "it". (Along the 
lines of: if you have many passed tests for "it" and there are few 
workarounds for "it", it does look pretty good for "it". :-)

Markus